Shani Strand: Everything Must Be Returned presents an immersive installation occupying the entire ground floor of Artists Space, centering on a video titled R.I.P. He Deserves It — a clown story and revenge fantasy drawing on C.L.R. James's writing on Hegel and Louise Bennett-Coverley's satirical poem on the Windrush migration. Sculptures in bamboo, rebar, JJJ Bricks, and ceramics depict morningstars and duppies — Jamaican Patois for ghosts — alongside site-specific resin pools evoking superstition, death, and violence. Guided by trickster figures at the edges of violence and spaces of potential freedom, Strand examines how visible objects and social performances operate as metonyms for invisible ghosts, infrastructure, and history.
