Name: Exhibition Opening: Liquid Archive by Jasmine Togo-Brisby
Start: 2026-06-16T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-16T21:30:00+02:00
Location: Global Heritage Lab

An evening between water, memory, and colonial trace exploration

With the opening of Liquid Archive, the Global Heritage Lab in Bonn invites you to an art experience that impressively connects art history, memory culture, and contemporary visual language. Jasmine Togo-Brisby creates an aesthetic experience from video work and photography, where water appears as a repository of loss, resistance, and care.

A space for work reflection and historical depth

At the center is the video work Mother Tongue (2020), which features the artist together with her mother and daughter at the wreck of the Don Juan. The visual field opens a multifaceted examination of the work: the sea is read not just as a landscape, but as a bearer of history, a space of colonial violence, and familial memory. The exhibition links this perspective with the photo series From Bones and Bellies (2021), which presents female bodies as monuments of colonial violence and also as symbols of resilience and healing.

Jasmine Togo-Brisby: Art as research, memory as practice

Jasmine Togo-Brisby is a fourth generation Australian South Sea Islander with roots in Ambae and Santo, Vanuatu. Her works revolve around the history of so-called Blackbirding, the abduction of people from the Pacific region for work on Australian plantations. In Bonn, this artistic research is placed in a museum and educational context that intertwines colonial past, extractive economic practices, and contemporary knowledge issues.

Global Heritage Lab as a place of cultural education

The Global Heritage Lab at the University of Bonn sees itself as a transdisciplinary research and exhibition space at the intersection of art, science, and urban society. Exactly therein lies the strength of this presentation: it combines curating, museum education, and critical historical work into a learning space that does not teach but opens up. Visitors encounter an exhibition that not only informs but stimulates reflection on colonial continuities, ecological interconnections, and forms of remembrance.

Exhibition atmosphere between light, water, and archive

The presentation promises a calm, focused exhibition atmosphere. Image spaces, filmic sequences, and photographic works create a quiet intensity in which light, surface, and spatial effect work closely together. Those who engage with this exhibition experience not a linear narrative, but an open archive of images, bodies, and voices.

Conclusion: A must for art enthusiasts in Bonn

Liquid Archive is an exhibition for all who wish to experience contemporary art as a form of societal and historical insight. The opening offers the ideal opportunity to discover the works of Jasmine Togo-Brisby in their full poetic and political strength. A visit to Bonn is worthwhile for all who seek a profound art experience and value art as an aesthetic experience with conviction.