Ayesha Hameed is an artist and writer born in Edmonton, Canada, who lives and works in London. Her work explores the heritage of Black diasporas through the figure of the Atlantic Ocean, using an Afrofuturist approach that combines performance, sound essays, video and lectures. Recurring motifs of water, borders and displacement reflect on migration stories and on the relations between people and what they imagine as nature. Her work has appeared at the Liverpool Biennial (2021), the Gothenburg Biennial (2019, 2021), the Lubumbashi Biennale (2019) and the Dakar Biennale (2018). She is Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She co-authored "Visual Cultures as Time Travel" (2021) and co-edited "Futures and Fictions" (2017). Her textile and audio installation "I sing of the sea, I am mermaid of the trees" (2021) follows the 19th-century undersea telegraph cable connecting Britain and India.
