Installation view of In the Black Fantastic, Hayward Gallery. Photo by Rob Harris.
Hales is delighted to announce the inclusion of Hew Locke in In the Black Fantastic and the Hayward Gallery until 18 September 2022.
Myth, science fiction, spiritual traditions and the legacy of Afrofuturism are all sampled, reimagined and recontextualised in In the Black Fantastic.
Encompassing painting, photography, video, sculpture and mixed-media installations, the exhibition creates immersive aesthetic experiences that bring the viewer into a new environment somewhere between the real world and a multiplicity of imagined ones.
While some artists disrupt our understanding of the past, others invite us to imagine fantastical futures. In this exhibition, fantasy becomes a zone of creative and cultural liberation and a means of addressing racism and social injustice by conjuring new ways of being in the world.
Hew Locke
In the Black Fantastic
Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London
SE1 8XX
29 June - 18 September 2022
Click here for the Hayward Gallery website.
