12 Mar 2019 - 4:16 PM

Grace Wales Bonner: A Time For New Dreams closes this Sunday. ‘Both aesthetically and ethically, I seek to translate my rage and my desire into new images which will undermine conventional perceptions and which may reveal hidden worlds. Many of the images are seen as sexually explicit – or more precisely, homosexually explicit. I make my pictures homosexual on purpose. Black men from the Third World have not previously revealed either to their own peoples or to the West a certain shocking fact: they can desire each other.' - Rotimi Fani-Kayode Rotimi Fani-Kayode Half Opened Eyes Twins, 1989 Courtesy of the artist and Autograph, London @walesbonner #GraceWalesBonner #RotimiFaniKayode @autographabp

11 Mar 2019 - 5:39 PM

Grace Wales Bonner closes Sunday 17 March. ‘On three counts I am an outsider: in terms of sexuality; in terms of geographical and cultural dislocation; and in the sense of not having become the sort of respectably married professional my parents might have hoped for.’ - Rotimi Fani-Kayode Rotimi Fani-Kayode Nothing to Lose XII, from the series Bodies of Experience, 1989 Courtesy of the artist and Autograph, London @walesbonner #GraceWalesBonner #RotimiFaniKayode @autographabp

10 Mar 2019 - 5:32 PM

Join Jasleen Kaur for Unwritten Handbook, a free education event where Kaur will be discussing her practice. Her work is an ongoing exploration into the malleability of culture and the layering of social histories within materials and objects. Book via Stories! Unwritten Handbook is a seasonal series of conversations with artists commissioned through Education and Projects at the Serpentine Galleries. Recent Artist Talks include: Adam James, Adelita Husni-Bey, Rehana Zaman, Harold Offeh and Paul Maheke. Jasleen Kaur Balti, film still 2014 Courtesy of Rachel Louise-Brown #education #artseducation

10 Mar 2019 - 10:21 AM

Through her research, Grace Wales Bonner explores the history of Howard University in Washington D.C, a historically black university in the U.S, drawing upon the Varsity context and the presence of intellectual circles and secret societies within it. Hidden within Wales Bonner’s Shrine I is this archival photograph of a Howard University student, as well as two ‘Bison’ yearbooks displayed as part of Shrine II. #gracewalesbonner #howarduniversity #howard #howard1867 @howard1867 @walesbonner