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Lubaina Himid

Undo the Knots of Poverty, 2011

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Description

Maker

Lubaina Himid, b. 1954, British (b. Tanzania)

Title

Undo the Knots of Poverty

Year

2011

Medium

Acrylic and pencil on paper and collage of magazine pages on paper

Dimensions

Collage: 33.5 x 28 cm (13 3/16 x 11 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed, on verso of collage frame, in graphite, at top center: UNDO THE KNOTS OF POVERTY; in graphite, on UR of collage frame: 6.

Type

Credit

Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art

Object Number

2016.54

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty

May 4 - December 30, 2018

If you walk through the markets of Accra, or south London, you’ll be walking among hundreds of exuberant people of the world, yet many are descendants of slaves. You go to a Jewish wedding and the people survive, understand, carry their history. They are stronger than history, that is the point. My figures say: “You tell me your story, I’ll tell you mine.”

I’m not in the business of making work where I repeat the trauma. My work is about attempting to belong, about understanding who we are as black people in the diaspora, how much we have contributed across Europe in terms of culture, building, the wealth of the European machine. Never mind the American machine, that’s a whole other story. –Lubaina Himid

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