Talk
Saturday Talks: Melissa Blanchflower on Faith Ringgold
7 Sep 2019
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free, drop-in
Address
- Kensington Garden
- London
- W2 3XA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- South Kensington/Lancaster Gate
Curator Melissa Blanchflower leads a tour of the Faith Ringgold exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks. Visit our BSL page for more information.
About
The ground-breaking work of Faith Ringgold is celebrated in this exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries, her first in a European institution. For more than five decades, Ringgold has consistently challenged perceptions of African American identity and gender inequality through the lenses of the feminist and the civil rights movements. As cultural assumptions and prejudices persist, her work retains its contemporary resonance.
Focussing on different series that she has created over the past 50 years, this survey of her work will include paintings, story quilts, soft sculptures and political posters made during the Black Power movement including one to free activist Angela Davis.
