culture writer and curator Ekow Eshun considers identity and nationhood through the work of Ellen Gallagher, Lubaina Himid, John Akomfrah, Chris Ofili and Fred Wilson.
Culture writer and curator Ekow Eshun looks at the afterlives of slavery in contemporary artistic practice through the work of Kara Walker, Alberta Whittle, and Hew Locke.
Culture writer and curator Ekow Eshun searches for a definition of the Black Atlantic, drawing on the works of JMW Turner, Ingrid Pollard, Isaac Julien and Yinka Shonibare.
Based on magazines dating from the 1930s to the 1970s aimed at African-American audiences, Gallagher's witty and sophisticated interventions emphasize the complex construction of identity.
Inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, Walker’s fountain explores the interconnected histories of Africa, America and Europe, referring to the transatlantic slave trade and the ambitions, fates, and tragedies of people from these three continents.
Art historian Gregory Salter considers Freud’s paintings of queer and marginalized bodies in the age of Section 28, the early years of HIV/AIDS, and preoccupations about class and gender.