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Saturday 13 August 2022

Artlyst: In The Black Fantastic London’s Best Summer Exhibition

My latest review for Artlyst is of 'In The Black Fantastic' at the Hayward Gallery:

‘In his 2020 Aperture article on ‘The Black Fantastic’, Ekow Eshun used a definition of the fantastic created by the scholar Rosemary Jackson which, “has to do with inverting elements of this world, re-combining its constitutive features in new relations to produce something strange, unfamiliar, and apparently ‘new,’ absolutely ‘other’ and different.”

With ‘In The Black Fantastic’ Eshun has said, in a conversation with film critic Chrystel Oloukoï, he “is interested in how artists from a range of different mediums (visual art, film, music) deal with the idea of race in general, as a social construct that retains a determining presence in all of our lives, through myth and speculative fiction.” He’s interested in “the fantasy of race and the lived reality of race”, but also in “interrogating that condition and looking beyond it” “as a way to describe new encounters, new ways of being and seeing.”

Alongside this facet of the Black Fantastic, Eshun is also interested in “collective memories, cultural and spiritual practices that artists and cultural figures are drawing on in expansive and generative ways, reaching back in time, as well as into the future, reaching towards myth, spiritual belief.”’

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