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Exhibitions

A victory of the imaginatively crafted over the conceptual: In the Black Fantastic reviewed

13 August 2022

9:00 AM

13 August 2022

9:00 AM

In the Black Fantastic

Hayward Gallery, until 18 September

‘These artists are offering other ways of seeing,’ says Ekow Eshun, curator of In the Black Fantastic, and from the moment you push open the Hayward’s heavy swing doors you see what he means. Outside, a world of grey utilitarian concrete; inside, a vibrant crew of invaders from planet Zog glittering like Technicolor Pearly Kings in bright carapaces of beads, sequins and buttons.

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