ODE TO TEMPERANCE encompasses selected sculptures, paintings, videos and mixed-media from Roisin Jones.
The installation is an immersive environment which aims to honour the untold stories of marginalised communities; and calls for visitors to consider the temperance black women have had to exercise throughout their existence. The work aims to celebrate diasporas emancipation from colonialism, and emphasises the importance of documenting histories and cultures that existed before, and were lost due to colonialism. Inspired by Afro-futurism and Black feminist ideologies the presentation honours the past; Whilst envisaging a fully liberated future without any constraint.