Mirror Reflecting Darkly

Mirror Reflecting Darkly
Rita Keegan, Matthew Harle
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Hardback
h297 x 203mm - 160pg
4 May 2021 UK
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9781912685912
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Documenting the artistic practice of Rita Keegan- from exhibitions at major venues to everyday life as a working Black female artist. From the Bronx to Soho to Brixton, Mirror Reflecting Darkly is an exploration of the artist Rita Keegan' s archive collection. Part autobiography and part critical history, it reproduces a cross-section of Keegan' s archive, mapping an artistic practice that ranges from her exhibitions at such major museums and galleries as the ICA and the Tate to her curatorship of the Women of Colour Index, a groundbreaking 1987 initiative that documented Black and Asian women artists. It includes records of Keegan' s journey through different creative environments of London in the 1980s and 1990s, offering rare ephemera drawn from her involvement in the Black British Art movement, covering her years as a fixture of Soho clubland, and documenting the intimate traces of her everyday life as a working Black female artist. Accompanying the selections from the archive are essays and personal reflections from a range of writers, academics and artists--including Keegan herself--which expand upon the themes from the material- networks of creative kinship, the story of British Black Arts, self-archiving, and archiving as activism. ContributorsBarby Asante, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, Janice Cheddie, Lauren Craig, Lucy Davies, Althea Greenan, Joy Gregory, Hiroko Hagiwara, Matthew Harle, Rita Keegan, Shaheen Merali, Naomi Pearce
Rita Keegan is an artist, lecturer and archivist from the Bronx who has lived and worked in London since 1980. Her work explores memory, history, dress, and adornment, often through the use of her extensive family archive-a photographic record of a black middle class Canadian family from 1890s to the present. She cofounded the Brixton Art Gallery in 1982, established the Women of Colour Index (WOCI) in 1987, and was Director of the African and Asian Visual Arts Archive (AAVAA) until 1994. For many years, she was a lecturer in multimedia arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. Matthew Harle works in the BFI Southbank' s Television Programming Unit, holds a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, and has taught English and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck and King' s College London.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781912685912
Published: 4 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Goldsmiths, Unversity of London
Publisher: Goldsmiths, Unversity of London
Format: Hardback
Height: 297mm
Width: 203mm
Pages: 160

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