Claudia Rankine: New Approaches to Autobiography
27 Mar 2025 7-8pm

Join American poet and playwright Claudia Rankine as she examines the shifting terms of autobiography in contemporary Black artmaking.
In this talk, Rankine traces an impetus in Black art that moves away from direct representations of trauma to centre depictions of community and the intimacies of daily life. Touching on the work of American artists Noah Davis, Arthur Jafa and Jennifer Packer, she asks what it means for art to resist, rather than represent, instances of violence as it addresses life in all its complex richness.
This talk is part of the public programme for Noah Davis, the first retrospective of the Los Angeles-based artist to take place in the UK, on view in our Art Gallery from 6 Feb to 11 May.
Standard tickets £25. Concessions available.