Tavares Strachan in Conversation with Emma Dabiri
Hear from artist Tavares Strachan and bestselling author, academic and broadcaster Emma Dabiri, as they discuss the Hayward Gallery’s current exhibition, and belonging.
Join two leading creative thinkers as they discuss shared interests explored within their work, including cultural visibility; belonging; Afrofuturism; and hair as a carrier of identity.
Tavares Strachan’s artistic practice activates the intersections of art, science and politics. Themes of invisibility, displacement and loss are central to his work, which questions historically canonised narratives that exclude or obscure certain people and communities.
Strachan was born in 1979 in Nassau, Bahamas, and currently lives and works between New York City and Nassau. He received a BFA in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003 and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2006. He has exhibited internationally and received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Foundation fellowship (2022).
Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian author, academic and broadcaster. She spent over a decade as a teaching fellow in the African department at SOAS and is a final year Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths. She is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller What White People Can Do Next, Don’t Touch My Hair and Disobedient Bodies.
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