Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid talks with art critic Louisa Buck about her British Pavilion exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
Lubaina Himid is in conversation at the Royal Academy of Arts on Wednesday 28 October, from 6.30 to 7.45pm. She'll be joined by art critic Louisa Buck, and the talk centres on the year Himid is currently representing Great Britain at the Venice Biennale.
For those who haven't come across her, Himid is a leading figure of the Black British Art Movement, known for vivid, incisive work that challenges Eurocentric narratives and puts Black lives, histories and ways of knowing at the front. She's a Turner Prize winner, and the conversation is built around her British Pavilion exhibition, Predicting History: Testing Translation. That exhibition turns the pavilion into an immersive environment of large-scale paintings, found objects and sound, and it's designed to invite reflection on migration, identity, memory and the mutable meaning of home. Himid is expected to speak plainly about painting as protest rather than settle for polite art talk.
Her conversation partner, Louisa Buck, is a writer and broadcaster on contemporary art, a Contributing Editor and London Contemporary Art Correspondent for The Art Newspaper, and a regular reviewer and commentator on BBC radio and TV.
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The talk takes place in the Benjamin West Lecture Theatre at Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD, and is also available online. Tickets are £25 or £15 in person, and £10 or £8 online.
