Hew Locke: Passages | Publication

Hales is delighted to announce the publication of the accompanying book to the expansive survey exhibition 'Hew Locke: Passages' at Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA.

 

The catalogue to the forthcoming exhibition offers the first comprehensive examination of the career of the Guyanese British artist Hew Locke, who is renowed for his multimedia explorations of colonial and postcolonial power.

 

This richly illustrated catalogue showcases the full spectrum of Locke’s practice, bringing together distinct bodies of work that scrutinize the visual language of empire and colonialism’s present-day legacies of global market capitalism, migration, and diaspora. Essays from leading curators, critics, and scholars of contemporary art situate Locke’s work within the context of colonial and postcolonial history and theory, reveal how his use of nontraditional materials—including cardboard, fabric, beads, sequins, and readymade toys—enables the artist to reflect on his Guyanese-British heritage, and consider how the artist’s dense, highly textured, and multilayered works fuse vernacular and formal traditions.