Meet the curator and artists participating in 'Get Up, Stand Up Now', a landmark exhibition surveying 50 years of black British culture, opening at Somerset House this week.
Recently, it’s been increasingly difficult to come up with things that are especially great about Great Britain. One of the proudest hallmarks of this country, however, is, without doubt, the cultural mosaic that results in the creative vibrancy that our little cluster of islands is known for.
As you can probably imagine, taking stock of half a century’s worth of black contributions to culture at large is no small task -- approximately 100 artists working across art, film photography, music, literature, design and fashion have contributed work. Chris Ofili, Ronan Mckenzie, Mowalola Ogunlesi and Gaika are just a small selection. Though the subject matter may be global, the seed from which the show grew was sown close to the curator’s home.
Perhaps an even more powerful binding force, however, is the urgent, uncompromising nature of the works on show. Overcoming the restrictive tendency to pigeon-hole black creativity in a way that makes it understandable to a mass, predominantly white, audience, the works on show celebrate and grapple with the personal and political complexities of modern black identity on their own terms.
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