About the curator 

Shivaya Prasad (she/her)  joined Opus in January 2024 as an Abolition Demonstrator and curator for their border abolition project ‘Give Over.’ She is interested in utilising abolitionist frameworks through imaginative and revolutionary means when challenging colonial and violent state systems. She is interested in activist practice within the arts and heritage sector, focusing on resistance, anti-imperialism, and reparative justice. She has experience in the museum and film archive sector. 

About Opus Independents

At Opus, we believe that tweaks and improvements to existing systems will not work – existing systems are often part of the problem, are fundamentally flawed or are themselves at real risk of collapse.

We need to build new systems that address poverty, hunger, marginalisation, the democratic deficit and ecosystem collapse. This needs to be done at a speed and scale that matches the severity of the various crises we are facing – what we call the 'polycrisis'.

Instead of reforms to fundamentally flawed systems, our work focuses on emerging futures – new systems based on equity, justice and staying within our planetary boundaries. 

We think big because we have no other option.

Thank you to...

The Workstation, for hosting our exhibition... 

Paul Hamlyn Foundation, for funding the exhibition and the wider Give Over project.