VWAYAZER
09/2025
Vwayazer presents a collection of moving image works that engage with narratives of movement unfolding in and around our island, while reflecting on the significance of travel within our collective memory. This gathering is a recognition of the travellers who, like mystics, never let go of their tether to the island across time and space.
As islanders, our unconscious holds conflicting memories of movement. Within the island’s layered histories we are all children of displacement. In our bones lie tales of travel, the migrations that were forced, the migrations that were chosen. Travel is a common denominator of our fractured identities; it has forged our collective culture of resilience.
Travel and the way we intuit and experience it as islanders today sometimes tends to our inherited traumas; travel also functions as an escape, a status symbol, a self-actualisation journey. For many of us, travel is a search for more hopeful futures.
These ideas of travel stand in contradiction to the images produced by the hospitality industry, which perpetuate romanticised notions of travel: voyages of discovery and fantasies of a tropical paradise ready for consumption or entertainment.
Vwayazer gathers a selection of Moving Image works in diverse forms, inviting engagement in alternative forms of storytelling. The selected pieces range from lyrical documentaries to video performance, animation, cinema-adjacent works and more experimental pieces.
Vwayazer reminds us of the distance between two points. It is an attempt at building bridges between islanders and the diaspora, between what’s far and what’s near, between what’s past and what is yet to come.
Featuring the works of: Audrey Albert, Christopher Amurat, Shiraz Bayjoo, Avildseen Bheekhoo, Isabelle Chowree, Caroline Déodat, Charles Arthur Feuvrier, Harriet Fleuriot, Max Anish Gowriah, Mati Jhurry, KMVH, Hemansingh Lutchmun, Azim Moollan, Karen Pang, Amanda Ramasawmy, Vashish Soobah, Gloria Vivien, Kim Yip Tong, resort
This screening was made possible by resort its extended community, the trust and support of all participating artists, Ariel Saramandi, Ameerah Arjanee, Mati Jhurry, Naomi Rajoo, Chloe Mayotte and Caudan Arts Centre.
Vwayazer prezant enn koleksion zimaz an mouvman ki abord bann resi lor mouvman ki deroul lor nou zil ek otour nou zil, anmemtan ki li medit lor rol de vwayaz dan nou memwar kolektif. Sa rasanbleman-la rann omaz a bann vwayazer ki, kouma bann mistik, zame inn kas lien ki zot ena ar nou zil atraver letan ek lespas.
Antan ki bann zilwa, nou inkonsian gard bann souvenir kontradiktwar lor mouvman. Dan bann diferan kous listwar nou zil, nou tou nou bann zanfan deplasman. Nou lezo konserv bann lezand lor vwayaz, bann migrasion ki’nn forse, bann migrasion ki’nn swazir. Vwayaz li eleman komin de nou lidantite fraktire; li’nn forz nou kiltir kolektif rezilians.
Vwayaz, ek fason ki nou konpran li intuitivman ek experians li zordi-zour kouma bann zilwa, parfwa tousa konekte a bann troma ki nou finn inerite: vwayaz osi fonksionn kouma enn evazion, enn sinbol stati sosial, enn parkour epanwisman personnel. Pou boukou dant nou, vwayaze de rod enn lefitir ki ena plis lespwar.
Sa bann lide lor vwayaz la, zot an kontradiksion avek bann limaz ki prodir bann lindistri tourism, ki perpetie bann nosion idealize de vwayaz: bann vwayaz dekouvert ek bann fantasm de enn paradi tropikal ki la pou konsomasion ou distraksion.
Vwayazer reini enn seleksion zimaz an mouvman ki pran plizir form, sa ki invit nou imers nou-mem dan diferan form alternatif pou rakont bann zistwar. Bann pies ki’nn seleksione pran form dokimanter poetik, performans lor video, animasion, travay ki tom inpe dan domenn sinema, ek lezot form pli experimental. Vwayazer rapel nou distans ant de pwin. Se enn tantativ konstrir bann pon ant dimounn ki lor nou zil ek bann ki dan diaspora, ant sa ki lwin ek sa ki pre, ant sa ki dan lepase ek sa ki pankor arive.
Bann artis dan sa expozition-la: Audrey Albert, Christopher Amurat, Shiraz Bayjoo, Avildseen Bheekhoo, Isabelle Chowree, Caroline Déodat, Charles Arthur Feuvrier, Harriet Fleuriot, Max Anish Gowriah, Mati Jhurry, KMVH, Hemansingh Lutchmun, Azim Moollan, Karen Pang, Amanda Ramasawmy, Vashish Soobah, Gloria Vivien, Kim Yip Tong, resort
Sa evennman-la finn posib gras a soutien de resort so kominote ek rezo. Enn mersi spesial a tou bann artis ki’nn partisipe, a Ariel Saramandi, Ameerah Arjanee, Mati Jhurry, Chloe Mayotte ek Caudan Arts Centre.