‘The Empire’s Old Clothes’ challenges colonial propaganda in new exhibition – Attenborough Arts Centre | University of Leicester

‘The Empire’s Old Clothes’ challenges colonial propaganda in new exhibition – Attenborough Arts Centre | University of Leicester

The Empire’s Old Clothes by Priya Mistry, who works under the pseudonym whatsthebigmistry, opens at Attenborough Arts Centre. The work challenges the myths and propaganda of the ‘British Empire’ and draws on influences, aesthetics and politics from Indian and Afro-Futurism, queer culture and experiences of ableism and racism in post-Empire Brexit-Britain. The exhibition is centred around a short non-linear film (The Empire’s Old Clothes) which b…