Tavares Strachan on Marcus Garvey, the vocabulary of Black hair and telling untold stories
‘If I was going to bring a sentient being from another plant to get a little taste of human civilisation over a long period of time, I might bring them in this room’ explains Barbadian artist Tavares Strachan, as he stands in a room of our Hayward Gallery, the walls of which are covered with his encyclopaedic artwork Six Thousand Years (2018).
Strachan is in conversation with Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff as the two take a tour through the exhibition Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere, a survey of the artist’s work, including immersive installations, moving neon works and fantastical sculptures.
Among the latter are two works celebrating and commemorating the life of the political activist Marcus Garvey which are explored in this video. The first, a large bronze head, stands at the gallery’s entrance – ‘It was about creating a work that felt like it should have existed many centuries ago to honour someone I consider to be a giant and to do it in a way that represents the statue of his body of work’ explains Strachan. The other is a realisation of Garvey’s Black Star Line by way of a large liner floated on water on one of the gallery’s terraces.
In this video the artist also introduces a series of bronze sculptural works adorned with real Black hair, and The Encyclopaedia of Invisibility (2014-18) through which he sought to present historically marginalised individuals and events. ‘If there’s a place where everything we know goes, could there be a place where the things that we don’t know would live?’
Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere is at the Hayward Gallery until Sunday 1 September.
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