Call When You Reach

9 Nov 2024-2 Feb 2025

Overview

2020 Ingram Prize winner Madinah Farhannah Thompson presents a solo exhibition of her recent work. The Ingram Prize was established to celebrate and support artists at the start of their careers and in this exhibition, Thompson presents Call When You Reach at The Lightbox.

Madinah Farhannah Thompson is a Norfolk-based visual artist and writer whose work challenges the pervasive misrepresentation of Black female bodies within Western societies. She aims to disrupt and deconstruct harmful stereotypes that uphold white supremacy, using her art to navigate these limiting narratives.
Thompson received a Distinction in MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths, University of London and graduated with first class honours in BA Fine Art from The Cass School of Art (London Metropolitan University).

Thompson has exhibited and performed at venues such as The Mall Galleries, The Royal Academy and The Southbank Centre, with her film Saliva & Tears/Underneath You receiving The Ingram Prize in 2020.