Libita Sibungu: Zed Love

In this solo exhibition, Libita Sibungu works with early photographic techniques alongside drawing and sound to uncover the hidden layers, energies, and histories that connect people to place. About Fragments of real and imagined archives are woven together through sound, voice, and movement, forming shifting, living systems that resist being fixed. These processes echo the exhibition’s engagement with decay, shapeshifting, and geological change. ZED LOVE gives form to resilience as an adaptive and evolving condition. Within this context, the racialised body enters into conversation with mineral forms, with both understood as layered, evolving, and alive with memory. This relationship opens a space for navigating beyond the rigid categories shaped by colonial thinking. Dreams, visions, and memories converge here, inviting forms of becoming that resist fixed identities and singular narratives. Grounded in research into the intertwined histories of interracial families and working-class experiences in Britain, the exhibition also engages ritual-based making as a way of holding and transmitting knowledge. Through these practices, Libita explores the possibility of healing across generations, while addressing the enduring effects of racialised trauma. A public programme of events, both in the gallery and offsite, will accompany the exhibition. This will include performances, an artist talk, and workshops. See Read More below for details of the work on show, and artist bio. ZED LOVE is commissioned by Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, supported by a Creative Associate Placement at Arts University Plymouth, and funded by Arts Council England Read more Toggle Photography Audio / Sound Multi-disciplinary