Wed 12 June
6.30-9pm
Join Ciarán Finlayson and Onyeka Igwe as they discuss Perpetual Slavery by Finlayson .
In Perpetual Slavery, Ciarán Finlayson investigates the relationship of art to freedom in the work of Cameron Rowland and Ralph Lemon, who both utilize imagery of labour haunted and structured by the historical experience of slavery. Finlayson suggests that these two artists’ work overcomes the dichotomy between the recording of history and its interpretation by making both the object of artistic experience, thereby providing a space to grasp the continuing effects of slavery.
Onyeka Igwe is a London born, and based, moving image artist and researcher. Her work is aimed at the question: how do we live together? She has had solo/duo shows at MoMA PS1, New York (2023), High Line, New York (2022), Mercer Union, Toronto (2021), Jerwood Arts, London (2019) and Trinity Square Video, London (2018). Her films have screened in numerous group shows and film festivals worldwide. Currently, her work is on view in the national pavilion of Nigeria at this year's 60th Venice Biennial in 2024.
Ciarán Finlayson is a writer and editor based in New York. He is a senior editor at Triple Canopy. Finlayson's writing has appeared in Artforum, 032C, and Kunst und Politik, and in catalogues for exhibitions at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Studio Museum Harlem, New York; and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.