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Ofili’s paintings of his Black Odysseus are more straightforwardly lush and illustrative than his earlier works, but perhaps that’s the point: to make a new spin on the story feel like it has always been there. Who tells a story and how they tell it matters: it has an impact on who feels ownership of those roots, that cultural heritage. The word “calypso” has other associations in Trinidad – this nymph has lent her name to storytelling in song. Chris Ofili gives Homer’s Odyssey a Trinidadian makeover, picturing Odysseus and the sea nymph Calypso embracing in a warm tropical sea. As a symbolic gesture, collage is a route to reimagine what is available: it transforms the everyday into the unexpected.Īnother crucial theme here is the sharing and retelling of stories. Porn, fashion and nature magazines are sliced up and pieced together into mythic creatures and fantastical figures: Mutu fashions deities, monsters and dreamscapes from the disposable waste of contemporary culture. Wangechi Mutu once described magazines as “the faecal matter of culture – if you want to find out what’s really going on in the digestive system, you look at what’s coming out of it”. Her collage paintings make fertile use of this. Rashaad Newsome has pieced together a troupe of queer performers from images including historic African statuary and flashy jewellery.

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Hew Locke presents a room full of new mounted monuments, black figures on horseback adorned with a cascade of medals, textiles and art historical motifs. One is collage, in the expanded sense of the term: not only cut paper but, as in Cave’s work, found trimmings and objects of all kinds pieced together. The End of eating Everything (2014) Wangechi Mutu (Image: Courtesy of Artist, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, & Victoria Miro, London) Nevertheless, there are strong unifying themes here. They are costumes for the high priests of new rituals, stitched together from the detritus of an older culture.Įshun points out that the “Black fantastic” isn’t a genre per se – he’s just interested in the ways in which different artists use fiction and fantasy.

Another is encrusted with shining buttons, the head crested with a whirl of fine, coloured wire, like the three-way love child of a pearly king, a bottle brush and a sousaphone.

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Covering head and body, they offer flamboyant anonymity, at once a safe, darkened space to hide and a celebratory assertion.Ĭave has covered each in a skin of brightly coloured craft objects – one has a shaggy skirt of crocheted and knitted bonnets, like the deflating breasts of a psychedelic Artemis.

The most recent – Soundsuit 9.29 – was made following the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Eleventh (2018), by Lina Iris Viktor (Image: Courtesy the Artist)Īround the margins of the gallery are positioned four otherworldly costumes ­- the Soundsuits – each made in response to moments of collective mourning following episodes of public brutality. Cave made his first Soundsuit in 1992, the year footage of police officers beating Rodney King in Los Angeles was watched around the world. It is a clear symbol of solidarity and the effect at this scale is striking. Crossing the space at a diagonal is a vast “chain-link” curtain – Chain Reaction – each link a double-ended cast of the artist’s forearm, hands extended to haul up and hold the one beneath. The soaring opening gallery is taken over in spectacular style by the American sculptor Nick Cave.