Exhibition brings together work by 10 British African diaspora artists
Harold Offeh, Down at the Twilight Zone, 2018. 12 hour event, Toronto, Canada. Commissioned by Toronto Nuit Blanche, 2018. Photo by Priam Thomas.
CAMBRIDGE
.-Kettles Yard opened Untitled: art on the conditions of our time. This exhibition brings together work by 10 British African diaspora artists with a focus on how their innovative practices ask important questions about some of the most important cultural and political issues of our turbulent times. The exhibition features new commissions by Barby Asante, Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom and NT, as well as new and recent work by Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Phoebe Boswell, Kimathi Donkor, Evan Ifekoya, Cedar Lewisohn, Harold Offeh and Ima-Abasi Okon. Painting, drawing and printmaking sits alongside performance, video and sound installation.
The World Re-imagined: A ground-breaking National art education project to transform our understanding of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
“If we’re going to make racial justice a reality for all, it calls on us to courageously face our shared history with honesty, empathy and grace.
A new art project is launching next week Thursday 27 May to transform our understanding of the transatlantic slave trade.
The educational project entitled
It also hopes to act as a catalyst to help make racial justice a reality.
The
World Reimagined is co-founded by actress and singer, Michelle Gayle, who said in a statement: “If we’re going to make racial justice a reality for all, it calls on us to courageously face our shared history with honesty, empathy and grace.