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Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States (2024)

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Suspended States presented at Serpentine South from 12 April – 1 September 2024, revealing Yinka Shonibare CBE’s latest installations, sculptures, pictorial quilts, and woodcut prints. The publication includes newly commissioned texts by Distinguished SUNY Professor Nkiru Nzegwu; Dr. Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of V&A East; curator and poet Péjú Oshin; Alayo Akinkugbe, writer, researcher, and creator of A Black History of Art; and Ann Marie Peña, Chair of Curatorial Programme and a Founding Trustee of the Yinka Shonibare Foundation. Along with a conversation between the artist and Hans Ulrich Obrist, these texts explore the central themes of Suspended States including how systems of power affect sites of refuge, debates on public statues, the ecological impact of colonialization, and the legacy of imperialism on conflict and consequential attempts at peace. The catalogue also highlights Shonibare’s social practice including his Guest Project experimental space in East London and the Guest Artist Space (G.A.S.) Foundation he launched in Nigeria in 2019. The texts range from poetic prose to rigorous examinations of Nigerian aesthetics, often rooted in the author’s personal experience and demonstrating the far-reaching influence of Shonibare’s extensive career across disciplines and generations.

ISBN:

978-1-908617-84-2

Serpentine, London

978-3-7533-0652-0

Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2023

Inside the issue, we celebrate the centenary of Avedon’s birth with reflections from a range of cultural figures and a personal essay by author and poet Jake Skeets.

The issue also includes Salomé Gómez-Upegui on American artists and reproductive justice; a conversation about themes of identity and liminality in Gagosian’s Rites of Passage exhibition; and features on painters Harold Ancart and Katharina Grosse.

In the serialized fiction feature, Percival Everett continues his gripping tale of a wayward New Mexican artist retreat. The magazine’s pages also honor artistic voices past and present, including those of Clarice Lispector, Dorothy Miller, Brian O’Doherty, Martine Syms, and many more.

 
 

A New Country - Kaloki Nyamai, Gallery 1957, 2021