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Lubaina Himid (British, 1954), H.M.S. Calcutta, 2021. Oil on canvas, 74 × 96 in. Tate

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Between the Two my Heart is Balanced - Lubaina Himid (b.1954)

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Lubaina Himid

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The Operating Table (2019) - Lubaina Himid

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Admission to many museums in the UK are free, so once and a while we drop in to get to see local art. Here are some photos of art with themes of colonization, injustice, and issues of our time at Tate Liverpool.

This photo is of a Palestinian woman in what’s left of her home during the Sabra Camp massacre in 1982. It is by Don McCullin, a British photographer who covered the Lebanese Civil War during his visits in 1976 and 1982. Palestinian refugees fled to Lebanon after the establishment of Israel in 1948 in what was once a part of Palestine. The war in Lebanon led to massacres of Muslim neighborhoods including Palestinians in the Sabra refugee camp.

The late Zarina Hashmi was an Indian-American artist born in India, whose family was displaced by the 1947 partition of India after British colonial rule. While her sister Rani moved to Pakistan, Zarina eventually traveled the world, staying in touch with her sister everywhere she went. “Letters from Home” use these letters from Rani as a basis for the art, as they are written in Urdu and printed along with depictions of blue prints and maps of the places Zarina had lived through the years.

Kader Attia was born in France to Algerian parents, and later grew up in Algeria. Believe it or not, this artwork is made out of food. Specifically, couscous, a staple in Algeria as well as the rest of North Africa. Near the exhibit is a photo of Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, who applied modernist architecture during the French colonial period in Algeria near the mid 1900s. In this artwork Attia seems to shape buildings in the modernist style, depicting the ancient hilltop city of Ghardaia in Algeria. The buildings are molded in couscous, and cracks and crumbling areas in the buildings could be seen as weathering from both the city’s old age and French colonization.

Torkwase Dyson handcrafted these huge, black structures and placed them in a large dark space on the first floor of Tate Liverpool. Dyson’s abstract works “grapple with the ways in which space is perceived, imagined and negotiated particularly by black and brown bodies.” This installation, “Liquid a Place,” definitely displays this, with these huge statues of what seam like heavy slabs of the darkest marble. They definitely convey the weight of colonization for me, and the artist description of them echoing “the curve of a ship’s hull” got me the most. Tate Liverpool sits in what was once one of Europe’s busiest ports serving the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Lubaina Himid was one of the pioneers of the UK’s Black Art movement in the 1980s. “Carrot Piece” shows a white figure hovering a carrot over a Black woman carrying her own plentiful batch of food and items. The white figure is on a unicycle and wears light make up, conveying ridiculousness or crude entertainment, as if a clown. These are cut-out wooden paintings that are life-sized and was made for, as Himid wrote in her description, “…the moment when you slowly realise that you have learned something quite useful about yourself which proves to be a whole lot better than anything ever offered to you for free.”

Kerry James Marshall is known for his colorful paintings depicting Black people in dark shades. He counters “Western pictorial tradition” and brings forward Black figures in it. This work shows a Black figure wearing a British royal guard uniform, holding a sandwich board advertising a fish and chips restaurant named after a freedman, prominent writer, and British slavery abolitionist Olaudah Equiano. The irony of this art, is that it does not show a place in England. It is a scene in Arizona, where a “London Bridge” was made to attract American tourism.

#Tate Liverpool #Kerry James Marshall #Zarina Hashmi #Don McCullin #Lubaina Himid #Kader Attia #Torkwase Dyson

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Lubaina Himid 

Man in A Shirt Drawer 2017

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Lubaina Himid

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Via @rachellaraquel on instagram.

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Lubaina Himid, Le Rodeur: The Exchange, 2016

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Wat?    Cover the surface (2019), Stir Until Melted (2020), Remove from the heat (2019) en A Fashionable Mariage (1984, gereassembleerd in 2017 en 2021) door Lubaina Himid en ter vergelijking Marriage à la Mode: the toilette door William Hogarth

Waar?   Tentoonstelling Lubaina Himid in Tate Modern, Londen

Wanneer?   2 augustus 2022

Ik noemde het werk van Lubaina Himid raadselachtig, en dat blijft het tot het eind van de tentoonstelling. Veel van haar recente werken tonen welgeklede jongemannen die wat ongemakkelijk bij elkaar staan. Hun onderlinge relaties zijn niet zonder meer duidelijk.

A Fashionable Mariage is een ouder werk, uit 1986. In die tijd was ze bekend om haar geschilderde houten cut-outs. De installatie die als motto meekreeg Scenery Lift, bevindt zich voor een lift die gewoonlijk gebruikt wordt om objecten in het museum te brengen. Himid gebruikt deze ruimte als de backstage van een theateroptreden. De installatie verwijst naar Marriage à la Mode: The Toilette van William Hogarth, een satire over de corruptie van de elite in de achttiende eeuw. In de installatie van Himid toont de linkerkant de kunstwereld, de rechterkant de politieke wereld van Thatcher, Reagan, the National Front en Britse fascisten.

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1277

first posted in facebook february 27, 2024

lubaina himid -- "between the two my heart is balanced" (1991)

"two women in a small boat tearing up navigation charts … how many died, crossing the water?" … lubaina himid

"if i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want" … nikki giovanni

"my work is a kind of handbook – to deal with the ghosts of what has happened" … lubaina himid

"what she said" … al janik

#lubaina himid #between the two my heart is balanced #navigation charts #nikki giovanni #what i want #handbook #ghosts #al things considered

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Lubaina Himid

Between the Two my Heart is Balanced, 1991.  Acrylic paint on canvas. 

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women by female artists

#artist is frida kahlo #artist is elisabeth louise vifee le brun #artist is maru cassatt #artist is angelica kauffmann #artist is berthe morisot #artist is lois mailou jones #artist is laura wheeler waring #artist is lavinia fontana #artist is lynette yiadom boakye #artist is safeya binzagr #artist is hayv kahraman #artist is maria izquierdo #artist is aliza nisebaum #artist is sofonisba anguissola #artist is angel de cora #artist is chen ke #artist is catheraine van hemessen #artist is fu daokun #artist is lubaina himid #artist is guan dao gao #artist is pitaloosie saila and #artist is rocio navarro #artist is artemisia gentileschi #artist is judith leyster #artist is guan zilan #artist is gwendolyn bennett #artist is natalia goncharova #artist is angelina beloff #artist is rosalba carriera #artist is thalia flora-karavia

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Lubaina Himid. Freedom and Change (1984)

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East Wing West Wing, 1997-8

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Lubaina Himid

Dandy (2010)

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