Untangling the Perils that Tangle Us

Curators

Adeola Arthur Ayoola

Jumoke Sanwo

Artists

Julius Agbaje

Adegboyega Adesina

Odinakachi Okoroafor

Anne Adams

Chiderah Bosah

Austin Uzor

Chukwudubem Ukaigwe

Iyunade Judah

Hannah Uzor

Tobi Alexandra Falade

Paul Majek

Kehinde Awofeso

The Koppel Project is pleased to announce the return of Kanbi Projects, the London based Curatorial and Art Advisory practice specialising in artists from Africa and the diaspora, presenting Untangling the Perils that Tangle Us, a group exhibition showcasing twelve artists, working on and off the continent, whose expressions engage the complexities of blackness as the world emerges from a global pandemic.

Curated by Adeola Arthur Ayoola of Kanbi Projects and Jumoke Sanwo, founder of the Revolving Art Incubator (RAI) in Lagos, Nigeria, Untangling the Perils that Tangle Us features some of the most exciting emerging artists of African descent including Nigerian artists Julius Agbaje, Adesina Adegboyega, Odinakachi Okoroafor, Anne Adams, Chiderah Bosah; US based artist Austin Uzor; Canada based artists Chukwudubem Ukaigwe and Iyunade Judah and UK based artists Hannah Uzor, Tobi Alexandra Falade and Paul Majek.

Kanbi Projects' fifth exhibition is conceived as a liminal space in history. The exhibition through the practice of the participating artists seeks to present an unburdened yet authentic idealised imagery of the black lived experience either to re-imagine historical gaps and erasures, challenge contemporary narratives or to create alternative futures, one that transcends the current view on race, nationality or national belonging and offers a more diverse transnational, transcontinental and transcultural perspective.

The title of the show is inspired by Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book ‘Between the World and Me’ (2015), who writes “I recall that even then I had not yet begun to imagine the perils that tangle us.” In his book, the author speaks of the ‘plundering of the black body’ from an African-American perspective including police brutality and institutional racism.

Untangling the Perils that Tangle Us seeks to reframe blackness through a visual dialogue and exchange of ideas and perspectives and features multidimensional works in painting, photography, video and sculpture. The exhibition is a collaboration with The Koppel Project and is proudly supported by the Arts Council England through the National Lottery Project Grants.

The exhibition opens at The Koppel Project Hive in London from 15 November – 17 December 2021.

SPECIAL EVENT + TALK | 18 November 2021, 6-9pm

To RSVP to the Special Event, please follow this link.

UNTANGLING BLACKNESS PANEL + PRIVATE VIEW

18th November 21

6-9pm

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