Here are the five things you need to know about what’s already being hailed as a landmark show.
as key references for the exhibition. “These were works that explored the language of fantasy from the Black perspective,” he explains. “They were asking profound questions about race, identity, belonging, being othered, being alienated. I was interested in how artists explore this central question of race as a socially constructed fiction and as our lived reality by using myth or African culture survivals or spiritual practices.
In its examination of alternative myths around what it means to be Black in the world—in the past, present or future—the show features the work of just 11 artists. “We wanted to give each artist the space to articulate their own position and for us to honor their work,” Eshun adds. The exhibition includes heavyweights such as Kara Walker and Chris Ofili, who reimagines scenes from Homer’sand the Bible.
The show opens with a powerful, specially commissioned work by Nick Cave, the extraordinary Missouri-born sculptor and performance artist whose work has rarely been shown in the U.K. The installation features hundreds of casts of Black arms linked together like chains. Cave’s exquisite, iconicare also on display. These oversized, sculptural pieces of wearable art are intricately decorated with a variety of everyday materials and objects such as feathers, sisal, buttons, sequins, hair, and beads.
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