What’s Wrong With Us!?! Exhibition
Fusion Arts is proud to present ‘What’s Wrong With Us!?’, a group exhibition curated by Unlock the Chains Collective & Anne Griffiths.
This is a bold, mixed-media group exhibition featuring 14 artists exploring urgent and interwoven questions: How do we see the world? How does the world affect us? Have we lost our humanity?
Artists include Rachel Barbaresi, Jo Brown, John Comino-James, Khisha Clarke, Euton Daley, Anne Griffiths, Amy Harris, Usha Kar, Hanna Klien-Thomas, Kyra-Sky, Sylvia Morgado, Rawz, Ismael Rodriguez, and John Umney.
The exhibition brings together a diverse range of practices including painting, sculpture, installation, textiles, collage, photography, spoken word, and film.
“The exhibition What’s Wrong With Us!?! serves as a direct and challenging invitation for collective introspection and accountability. It brings together fourteen artists from various communities and experiences who collectively tackle the complex and continuing legacy of colonialism. Through their art, they seek to acknowledge historical injustices and highlight how these past wrongs continue to shape the world today. Through their diverse practices, including textiles, photography, collage, and the spoken word, these artists explore these themes.” – Anne Griffiths, Curator
Among the many powerful works on view is a striking sculptural installation by Venezuelan artist Ismael Rodriguez. In this piece, clay and straw become vessels of memory. Rodriguez reimagines the looted bronzes of the Kingdom of Benin, not to replicate them, but to make their absence visible — to confront their forced displacement and continued silencing behind Western museum glass.
“In Oxford, where I live, I walk among objects that do not belong to me, yet neither do they belong to those who display them.” By assembling fragile materials and found objects, Rodriguez’s work explores the tension between dispossession and resistance. “This piece is not just a tribute—it is an open wound, a broken mirror where colonized cultures still reflect themselves: vibrant, stubborn, alive.”
“As a curator, I’m drawn to the power of visibility, voice, and perspective — how we’re transformed by what we witness and by being truly seen. This exhibition is about making space for stories often unheard and truths often ignored. James Baldwin once said, ‘I know more about you than you know about me’ — a stark reminder of whose histories are remembered and whose are erased. And as the African proverb goes, ‘Until the lion tells their side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.’ This exhibition invites us to pause, reflect, and see differently.”- Euton Daley MBE, co-curator and founder of Unlock the Chains Collective
The exhibition also features a programme of events that are free to attend. This includes Craft Workshops on Saturday 19th July and Saturday 26th July, and Pan-Afrikan Centaurians on Saturday 19th July, which involves a day of talks, music, and celebration marking the centenary of Frantz Fanon and Patrice Lumumba, two revolutionary figures in the fight against colonialism and white supremacy.
The exhibition will run from Friday 11th July to Saturday 26th July 2025 at the Fusion Arts Park End Street space.
Entry is free and is open to the public. It is open Wednesdays to Fridays, 13:00-19:00, and Saturdays, 12:00-18:00
For press enquiries, interviews, or further information, please contact: feng@fusion-arts.org
