Celebrate International Women’s Day weekend with a discussion of the representation of Black women in All About Love, the Hayward Gallery’s new exhibition.
The Hayward Gallery’s Roden Chief Curator Rachel Thomas is joined by author, academic and broadcaster Emma Dabiri and curator Aindrea Emelife as they delve into the exhibition and its empowering visions of Black women across painting, photography and collage.
Emma Dabiri shares her reflections as a bestselling author on the embodied experience of Black womanhood and a devotee of the writing of bell hooks, after whom the exhibition is titled.
And Aindrea Emelife brings an expert curatorial perspective on the reclaiming of narratives around Black femininity within modern and contemporary art.
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.
Aindrea Emelife is a Nigerian-British curator and art historian specialising in modern and contemporary art, with a focus on questions around colonial and decolonial histories in Africa, transnationalism and the politics of representation. Emelife has been the inaugural Curator of MOWAA (Museum of West African Art) in Benin City, Nigeria since 2023. Emelife is on the Board of Trustees for New Curators.
