In her project The Broken Trade Winds, Al Shazly speaks about the colonial debris and the continued production of imperial formations rather than the empire itself in order to capture the ongoing quality of processes of decimation, displacement and reconquest. The work involves working with historical material as raw material as well as more conventional research in the archives of colonial material, particularly white ceramics, showing the colonial cultural legacies and their relationship to our contemporary memory. 

UJ Gallery, University of Johannesburg,May-June 2023.