Landfall

Born in Africa and now based in Porirua, Marie draws on personal experiences and ancestral histories, tracing contemporary immigration back to earlier colonial movements that continue to shape global movement, power, and belonging.

Working with clay and ferrous metals, Marie embraces the natural tension between these materials to express the frictions of contact between cultures, identities, and memory. In Landfall 15 ceramic vessels embody these frictions, holding the trauma of displacement and cultural dislocation, as well as resilience and transformation.

Landfall considers immigration as a continuation of colonial movement: a reshaping of land and identity through systems that remain unbalanced. Each work stands as a tactile record of encounters between past and present, self and other, homeland and host country. The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on their own position within the flow of global migration, asking us to see immigration not as a singular journey, but as a deeply political act shaped by both history and personal resilience.

Image: Marie L. Enslin, Untitled 3, 2017. Clay and ferrous metal.