Taking place at Ben Brown Fine Arts London and running 15 September – 22 October 2022, the exhibition seeks to explore the intersections, overlaps, and dissonance between the Black Atlantic and Asia Imperialist Trade routes, and brings together an extraordinary group of contemporary artists hailing from African and Asian diasporas. Inspired by the formative text by British-Ghanaian author and former MP Kwasi Kwarteng, Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World, the exhibition is an examination of how artists from African and Asian diasporas are engaging with the legacies of slavery, migration, colonialism, sovereignty, trade, and imperialism in contemporary times.
This seminal exhibition features works by Adam de Boer, Delphine Desane, Jeanne F. Jalandoni, Tidawhitney Lek, Fadekemi Ogunsanya, Maia Cruz Palileo, Miguel Angel Payano Jr., Paul Anthony Smith and Livien Yin. The exhibition also includes the work of major blue-chip artists, including Hurvin Anderson, Chris Ofili, Zao Wou-Ki and Theaster Gates, who designed this year’s Serpentine Pavilion.
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