On Clément Siatous: The Untold History of the Chagos Islands

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Paula Naughton will be in conversation with Amanda Hunt, and present her research into Chagossian artist Clément Siatous, following his first solo exhibition in the U.S. at Simon Preston Gallery. In the early 1970s, the entire populations of the Chagos Islands were forcibly evicted by the British Government to make way for a U.S. naval base on Diego Garcia, which it currently is today. Siatous illustrates a comprehensive chronicle of life on the islands in exhaustive detail, his paintings revealing a counternarrative to military record.

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This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.