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Date: 2025

Media: Ink, graphite and rubber stamps on paper  

Locations: Exhibited at São Paulo Biennale, 2025

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Created for the 36th iteration of the São Paulo Biennale, After the appeal will come the next delivery is inspired by the artist’s childhood memories of listening to cricket commentary, the piece consists of several pennant flags, each carrying a sign or pattern. Recognisable amongst the myriad of drawings is the “appeal gesture”—commonly known as “Howzat”—performed by a fielder (or fielders) towards the umpire during a cricket game. Referring to a crucial decision-making process, an appeal usually symbolises the decisive moment before a batsman is given out or not, and the game can be resumed. Particularly appealing, the piece, beyond its aesthetics, serves as a metaphor whereby parallels can be drawn between aspects of the game and the mechanisms that define and regulate societal interactions, such as unfairness, power dynamics, among others. Additionally, symbols such as human figures and text fragments, characteristic of Cozier’s unique long-term developed artistic and visual language, recur, inscribed primarily on red, green, and black pennant flags—colours that reminisce liberation struggle movements across the African continent and the Middle East.

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EXCERPT FROM TEXT FOR SǍO PAULO BIENNALE / 2025