BCA announces our second Curator in Residence, Pelumi Odubanjo
We’re thrilled to announce our next curator collaboration, led by Pelumi Odubanjo.
Reimaging Care focuses on the black womxn’s arts movement in Britain over the last decades (an inclusive term used to foreground experiences of trans women and non-binary people), Pelumi Odubanjo curates a video series bringing the voices of multigenerational, multi-national, queer, and non-binary artists to the forefront to explore the label of a ‘Black artist’. Martina Attille, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Libita Clayton, Evan Ifekoya, Joy Labinjo and Marcia Michael have been chosen by Pelumi to contribute to this new series.
The interviews with these six highlighted artists will create a dialogue with our archive collections, their works linked by a connective thread of ephemeral and translational kinship.
They’ll be asked to explore how art and practice can be seen as an act of care, whether this is through finding spaces for care, forming an art practice which cares for you, or your act of caring for certain communities, whilst simultaneously participating in acts of memory and remembering. This video series encourages cross-generational voices to come together.
In Pelumi’s words, “Although each generation will have their own distinct voice and mode of communicating sociality, I also believe that each generation has carved its own way of touching and imprinting on the other”. We are excited to see archival practise viewed through this lens, and we hope you will join us in our online exhibition space as we explore this new approach to dialogue between past, present and future.
This project is the second of two, the other being the Languid Hands’ Residency programme held with the intent of amplifying Black voices within the arts and heritage sector. We’ve invited early career curators to engage with the archives in these residencies, under the guidance and mentorship of guide Curator Barby Asante. We are hugely grateful that this programming is supported and funded by the Arts Council.
You can explore this series on BCA’s forthcoming online gallery from Monday 4 October 2020.
Featured artists:
Martina Attille
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Libita Sibungu
Evan Ifekoya
Joy Labinjo
Marcia Michael