Rotimi Fani-Kayode | Making a Rukus! Black Queer Histories through Love and Resistance | Somerset House

Hales is excited to announce the inclusion of Rotimi Fani-Kayode in Making a Rukus! Black Queer Histories through Love and Resistance at Somerset House, London, UK, through 19 January 2025. 

 

Making a Rukus! explores Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans creativity, activism, community and pride through archive materials, contemporary artworks and brand-new commissions, celebrating the work of Black LGBTQ+ pioneers and artists since the 1970s. The exhibition demonstrates that the rukus! archive, which takes its inspiration from causing a ruckus, or making a noise, is not a work of static historical documentation, but an ongoing and vital series of political and artistic interventions that bears witness to the joy, friendship, resistance, and creative endeavours of Black LGBTQ+ people in Britain.