Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan has positioned a large-scale model of a ship in a rooftop pond at London's Hayward Gallery, forming an outdoor installation to accompany his current art exhibition There Is Light Somewhere.
The installation is a replica of SS Yarmouth ? the flagship of the former Black Star Line, the first Black-owned shipping company in North America established by the Jamaican political activist Marcus Garvey in 1919.
Tavares Strachan has positioned a replica of SS Yarmouth on the roof of the Hayward Gallery
Strachan recreated the seminal vessel using a combination of aluminium, fibreglass and painted wood. The result is a 14-metre-long, ship-like structure installed on a rooftop terrace at the Hayward Gallery on South Bank.
The terrace was filled with 30 cubic metres of water for the project ? a feat signed off by local engineering firm Arup, which ensured that the installation was within the weight threshold for its location. The installation gives the impression of a vessel at sea
Perched atop the gallery's rooftop pool, the ship replica gives the impression of a vessel at sea.
Garvey originally founded the Black Star Line to facilitate international commerce among Black communities and later hoped to repatriate enslaved African Americans and their descendants by providing a route to Africa.
The ship replica was designed to accompany the artist's exhibition There Is Light Somewhere
While the shipping company ceased sailing in 1922, it has remained a pow...