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Theaster Gates late-night opening and film screening

21 Feb 2025 5-8pm

White Cube, Bermondsey
London SE1 3TQ

Overview

Join us for a special late-night opening on Friday, 21 February 2025, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination and on the occasion of the White Cube Bermondsey exhibition ‘Theaster Gates: 1965: Malcolm in Winter: A Translation Exercise’.

The event will feature a screening of Spike Lee’s 1992 biopic ‘Malcolm X’ in the auditorium. The evening will feature a playback of ‘Introducing Brother Malcolm’ by Darien Alexander Williams (from the publication ‘Mapping Malcolm’, by Najha Zigbi-Johnson). This playlist includes songs Malcolm X himself played before his speeches, and will be played on Theaster Gates’s large-scale binbo tokkuri installation ‘A Libation in Uncertain Times’ (2024).

The exhibition marks Theaster Gates’s first contact with the archive of late Japanese journalist Ei Nagata and his partner Haruhi Ishitani. Through a series of architectural interventions, large-scale installations, archival works and new film works, Gates engages with the methods of care and preservation nurtured in Japanese philosophy and craftsmanship, drawing upon them as a framework to consider the role of art and aesthetics in shaping political, ideological and cultural legacies.

Event details:

5 pm Film screening: Spike Lee, ‘Malcolm X’ (1992), running time 3hrs 22min
6–8 pm Late night opening with refreshments served in the gallery’s courtyard 

FREE - Please note that seating for the film screening is available on a first-come, first-served basis. 

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