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Maxine Walker, Untitled, 1997. © Maxine Walker. Courtesy of the artist and Autograph, London.
Exhibition
Maxine Walker: Untitled
26 Apr 2019 – 17 Aug 2019
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:30 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 21:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 1 Rivington Place
- London
United Kingdom - EC2A 3BA
- United Kingdom
Reintroducing a pioneering artist whose practice focused on representations of black womanhood, Maxine Walker: Untitled is a poignant exploration of identity by a young artist at the height of her career - using photography to interrogate the intricacies of skin, blackness and being.
About
Active between 1985 - 1997, this is Maxine Walker’s first solo exhibition in more than twenty-two years.
In her seminal series of self portraits Untitled (1997), Walker draws our attention to the features of her face in closely-cropped black and white photographs. The sequence of ten portraits share a charged visual journey as she seemingly peels away layers of her surface skin, conjuring a narrative that is more sinister than playful, intimating that her blackness cannot - and must not - be stripped away. Magnifying the delicacy of her skin, we are invited to consider complex notions of beauty, masquerade, and vulnerability.
