Working against “stereotyping and stigmatising”, Elizar Veerman intertwines diasporic communities together through a post-colonial lens

Working against “stereotyping and stigmatising”, Elizar Veerman intertwines diasporic communities together through a post-colonial lens

All images © Elizar Veerman The Dutch-born Moluccan artist is interested in how class, rather than race, creates solidarity among immigrant communities through tender images of young men in Europe When I call Elizar Veerman, he’s at his father’s house in Maluku, an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia, far from where he grew up in the Netherlands. During the 17th century, The Dutch East India Company exerted significant control …