Collection: Gherdai Hassell: NOT ALL HAS TO BE AS IT WAS

NOT ALL HAS TO BE AS IT WAS features Bermudian multidisciplinary contemporary artist, creative director, designer and storyteller, Gherdai Hassell. Currently living and working in the UK, Hassell is returning home for her first-ever exhibition at Masterworks.

Inspired by the landscapes found in the Masterworks Collection, NOT ALL HAS TO BE AS IT WAS seeks to conceptually and materially reimagine the painted landscape. Presenting her ‘Alibii’ figures as ‘Land Lords,’ caretakers of the land and guardians of the ‘Onion Seed,’ inspired by Nellie Musson, atop a landscape of collaged archival images, historical land documents and maps, Hassell layers the fabric of the past with visions of a newly imagined present. A landscape anew, NOT ALL HAS TO BE AS IT WAS offers an alternative Bermuda landscape, and imagines who the ‘Lords’ of our land could have been.

Find out more about the exhibition on the Masterworks website here.

Read Bernews' article on the exhibition here.