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Installation view of Hew Locke works, In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery, 2022. Photo by Rob Harris
Talk
Art Talk: In the Black Fantastic
20 Oct 2022
Regular hours
- Thu, 20 Oct
- 19:30 – 21:00
Cost of entry
Tickets cost £7, under 30s half price
Address
- 27 College Road
- Dulwich
- London
England - SE21 7BG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- P4, 3, 37
- 9 minutes walk from West Dulwich, 14 minutes walk from North Dulwich, 24 minutes walk from Herne Hill
Join Debbie Meniru, Curatorial Assistant on 'In the Black Fantastic', for a talk that will delve into the historical and political themes of the exhibition, exploring the bold, beautiful and often troubling works on display, and giving insights into the curatorial process behind the show.
About
'In the Black Fantastic' is a critically acclaimed exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, curated by Ekow Eshun and featuring eleven contemporary artists from the African diaspora. The artists reimagine and recontextualise myths, science fiction, spiritual traditions and Afrofuturism. Fantasy becomes a zone of creative and cultural liberation, and a means of addressing racism and social injustice.
The exhibition was at the Hayward Gallery until 18 September and will now travel to Kunsthal Rotterdam.
About the Speaker
Debbie Meniru is Curatorial Assistant at the Hayward Gallery. She has previously worked on exhibitions at organisations including Tate Modern, Somerset House and the Migration Museum. As a writer, she has been commissioned by CURA magazine and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, and she is a contributing author to upcoming books on ceramics published by Rizzoli and Hatje Cantz. She also writes about art and museums on her website, exploring ideas like ‘what if we interpreted art with fried yam?’
