Exhibition
Susan Cianciolo: God Life: Modern House On Land Outside Game Table
21 Jun 2019 – 01 Sep 2019
South London Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Free
Russian-Ghanaian artist Liz Johnson Artur presents a new body of work alongside photographs selected from her substantial archive documenting the lives of people from the African diaspora.
For more than three decades Artur has taken photographs across Europe, America, Africa and the Caribbean, in an ongoing project she calls the Black Balloon Archive. This solo show focuses on London, where she has lived since 1991, capturing the richness and complexity of Black British life.
Artur transforms the high-ceilinged Main Gallery with a series of four hanging and floor-based bamboo cane structures. Each hosts a body of images taken across the city, including in Peckham Rye, black-majority churches, non-binary club nights as well as a still life section Artur calls Library. These images are printed at various sizes, using both traditional photographic techniques onto paper as well as application to fabric, tracing paper and cardboard.
The structures act as a flexible backdrop for an integrated programme of events, in which Artur will invite artists working across music, poetry, dance and theatre to create intergenerational collaboration, performance and discussion.
Artur’s exhibition at the South London Gallery follows her first museum show, opening in May 2019 at the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Exhibition
Susan Cianciolo: God Life: Modern House On Land Outside Game Table
21 Jun 2019 – 01 Sep 2019
South London Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Event
Performances: Ms. Carrie Stacks, Liz Johnson Artur & Tori Handsley
16 Jul 2019
South London Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Event
Flow Fridays
26 Jul 2019
South London Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Event
Performance: Cõvco: Concient of the Soul
31 Jul 2019
South London Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Event
NKISI: the cosmos hums in audible and inaudible waves
08 Aug 2019
South London Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Screening
Screening: Liz Johnson Artur, Deborah Findlater, Josiane Pozi
15 Aug 2019
Peckhamplex
London, United Kingdom
Event
Performance: smallboydanger
17 Aug 2019
South London Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Event
Performances: Suutoo and Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura
23 Aug 2019
South London Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Talk
Talk Show: Liz Johnson Artur, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Zezi Ifore, Miss Jason
30 Aug 2019
South London Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Event
Performance: Kobby Adi & Theatre Peckham
31 Aug 2019
South London Gallery
London, United Kingdom
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