There Is Light Somewhere - Hardcover

Cao, Maggie M.; Eshun, Ekow

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853323780 ISBN 13: 9781853323782

Verlag: Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Using historical records to question what is remembered and what is forgotten, Strachan’s culturally engaged practice spotlights the lost stories of the people of the African Diaspora

This monograph focuses on the inventive ways in which the Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan (born 1979) engages with questions of cultural visibility and social inequity through painting, sculpture and installation. An interview with curator Ralph Rugoff and essays by writers Ekow Eshun and Maggie M. Cao examine the myriad ways Strachan’s work turns upside down conventional models of knowledge and education, discussing the artist’s own role as an explorer as well as works that pay homage to pioneers who navigated unknown ideas and uncharted territories. This lavishly illustrated volume features work from Strachan’s The Encyclopedia of Invisibility—an ongoing, 2,400-page publication and related sculptures and paintings that spotlight figures forgotten by history—as well as recent pieces that imaginatively remap the lost cultural connections between African diaspora people and traditional African societies.

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Ralph Rugoff is Director of the Hayward Gallery.

Ekow Eshun is a British writer and curator whose recent publication include In the Black Fantastic (2022) and The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure (2024).

Maggie Cao is a scholar of eighteenth and nineteenth-century American art in a global context. She studies the history of globalization with particular interest in intersections of art with histories of technology, natural science, and economics.

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Major monograph accompanying the first UK exhibition of the Bahamian contemporary artist Tavares Strachan (b. 1979), one of the most urgently compelling, innovative and accomplished artists of his generation.

This major monograph will focus on the highly inventive ways in which the Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan (b. 1979) has engaged with questions of cultural visibility and social inequity, through painting, sculpture and installation. A new interview with Ralph Rugoff and essays by Ekow Eshun and Ma

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hayward Gallery Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1853323780
• ISBN 13: 9781853323782
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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