Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica at Barbican Art Gallery, London, explores the impact of Pan-Africanism on artistic and cultural production from the 1920s to the present, through over 250 works - from paintings and installations to posters, journals, and film.
Ebony G. Patterson Invisible Presence: Bling Memories was originally conceived as a performance for En Mas', a project exploring Caribbean Carnival as a site of contemporary artistic practice. First staged during Kingston's Carnival in 2014, the work featured a procession of 50 elaborately embellished coffins inspired by Jamaican "bling funerals"-vivid celebrations that honour lives often overlooked in death as they were in life.
Blending the visual language of Carnival with rituals of mourning, Patterson transforms spectacle into an act of remembrance and resistance. Addressing class inequality, visibility, and collective memory, the work asserts a powerful presence for communities too often rendered invisible, while reimagining public ritual as a space for both protest and celebration.
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