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For Caleb Azumah Nelson, Thereâs Freedom in Feeling Seen
In his debut novel, âOpen Water,â the British-Ghanaian author incorporates images, scenes and the occasional Kendrick Lamar lyric to communicate what prose alone cannot.
âI left everything I had on the page,â Caleb Azumah Nelson said of his debut novel, âOpen Water.âCredit.Adama Jalloh for The New York Times
April 7, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Last December, Caleb Azumah Nelson visited Tate Britain to see âFly in League With the Night,â an exhibit featuring the painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. In her portraits, he didnât just see figures and backgrounds, he heard things too: the music of Miles Davis, Ebo Taylor, Solange â the songs the artist had been listening to as she conjured her characters.
A portraitist whose subjects are all in her head
The artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at Tate Modern in London, Oct. 30, 2020. A major new exhibition at Tate Britain in London puts the spotlight on Yiadom-Boakye, an artist who paints enigmatic Black characters of her own invention. Adama Jalloh/The New York Times.
by Siddhartha Mitter
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a committed painter of people. Every piece she shows is, on first impression, a portrait a careful study of one person, or, at most, a small group, with little to distract from their presence and force.
Yet whenever she starts work, in her East London studio, she is alone. Her subjects are not living individuals, but characters sprung from her mind.
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Fly In League With The Night, at Tate Britain covers Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s work from her graduation in 2003 to the present day, with some paintings made during lockdown.
I hadn’t seen much of Yiadom-Boakye’s work before and went into the show with no expectations. At first glance, it looks like just another series of portraits. But slowly the paintings emerge, the characters come to life, and her work seeps into your soul. Her characters often stare back at us, quietly from the shadows, their poses are indistinct, and their story vague, but the paintwork is lush and full of energy. I loved this show; it stayed with me for days after.
Zanele Muholi at Tate Modern
South African artist Muholi first reached acclaim in the early 2000s with photographs that told powerful visual stories of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex lives in their native country. Through 260 photographs, the artist and visual activist’s first major UK survey at Tate Modern spans the full breadth of their practice to date, ranging from their first series,
Only Half the Picture, to the ongoing
Somnyama Ngonyama. Through brave, poignant, empowering and often-tender portraits, Muholi has become recognised as one of the most celebrated and important photographers of the era.
Until 7 June 2021. tate.org.uk