You are cordially invited to the book launch with artist Joy Labinjo and contributors at Southwark Park Galleries, Lake Gallery, 13 September 2024, 6-8pm
The event will include a drinks reception, and the publication will be available to purchase for the special launch price of £35 (RRP £40), with Joy Labinjo present to sign copies.
Published on the occasion of Joy Labinjo’s third institutional solo exhibition, We Are Briefly Gorgeous, at Southwark Park Galleries, London (6 July – 29 September 2024), Tiwani Contemporary, in collaboration with Anomie Publishing, is proud to present the first monograph on the artist.
The exhibition for the evening will stay open until 8pm.
To RSVP please contact [email protected]
Joy Labinjo is significantly one of the most exciting, early career British artists, contributing to contemporary painting through a unique visual language that reflects her diasporic perspective. This publication tracks her evolution to date, and during the closing weeks of her institutional solo show: Joy Labinjo: We Are Briefly Gorgeous, Southwark Park Galleries, London, features an introduction by Dr. Christine Checinska, Senior Curator of Africa and Diaspora Textiles and Fashion, V&A, London; the essay, Joy Labinjo: Rethinking Body Politics in Painting, by Dr Jareh Das, Independent Curator and writer; and In Conversation: Good Trouble, with Curator, Adelaide Bannerman, Curatorial Director at Tiwani Contemporary, exploring Labinjo’s practice. Drawing on personal encounters with the artist and her work, each contributor reflects on Labinjo’s ability to make visible stories that offer insights that have the potential to move us beyond ourselves.
Dr Christine Checinska:
“For British painter Joy Labinjo figuration provides a way to think through the social, cultural, and political contexts that shape her everyday life, to meditate on the histories connected to her ancestry as she uncovers them, and to reflect on herself as she comes into her own as a woman and as an artist… To look closely at her oeuvre from then to now is to witness an artist who delights in the act of painting, constantly finessing her skill as she discovers the power of what can be expressed via paint, paste and canvas – the shift from the playfulness and imperfections of the early works…to satirical paintings that question race and racism, colonialism and whiteness, and through to the monumental renderings of her own naked body… To trace the conceptual underpinnings and materiality of her practice from then to now is to observe her flourishing.”
Edited by Adelaide Bannerman, Martina Mei and Matt Price, produced by Hurtwood and published by Tiwani Contemporary and Anomie Publishing, London. The book has been generously supported by the A G Leventis Foundation.
Title: Joy Labinjo
Binding: Hardback
Height (mm): 245
Width (mm): 270
Number of pages: 192
Subject: Modern and Contemporary Art, Art and Culture
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-910221-63-1
