{"id":8584,"date":"2024-07-24T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp26.cmswebdeveloper.com\/asian-news\/tavares-strachan-there-is-light-review\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T12:25:00","slug":"tavares-strachan-there-is-light-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp26.cmswebdeveloper.com\/asian-news\/tavares-strachan-there-is-light-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asianexpress.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/installation-view-of-tavares-strachan-there-is-light-somewhere-intergalactic-palace-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50424\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deep in this alluring exhibition &#8211; with its bronze heads and neon figures, dead heroes in clay and gold, tributes to the legends of Black music and history &#8211; is a piece of work that is has a quiet but powerful aura that you might just miss it. A ghost of female figure, floating in a glass tank. Or what It is the nervous system that have been kept in glass \u2013 a glimpse of an actual human being. Her name is Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951), an African American woman whose cells were illegally harvested by white doctors during cancer treatment without her knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tavares Strachan<\/strong>,born in the Bahamas in 1979, and now based in New City is the artist of lost figures and unfinished stories. His exhibition is a beautiful tribute to the first African American astronaut in the US space programme, Robert Henry Lawrence Jr \u2013 an image of a spaceman suspended from Earth and looks like he is either flying or falling; based on where you\u2019re standing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strachan also pays tribute to Matthew Henson, who can be seen as the first Black explorer to reach the North Pole. Henson appears in aceramic figure, which seems like a cross between an ancient Egyptian priest and terracotta warrior. He has an American football on his head with a spear coming out of it. Passing through 2D collages, he comes up in frosted acrylic on a lightbox but disappears into the whiteness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strachan\u2019s vision is so wide, running from the intimate and lyrical to the large-sized installations. They are excessive but powerful. The bronze heads of Marcus Garvey and King Tubby feel as if they\u2019re made by a team. Although Garvey\u2019s SS Yarmouth points towards Africa on a wind-riffled roof-pond outside \u2013 the ship was meant to trade between America, the Caribbean and Africa, in an all-Black enterprise \u2013 it never makes it from outsize toy into marooned metaphor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A look into Black history in an exhibition never fails to amaze and wow the viewer as it takes them back to a time (almost) forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Written by Nura Arooj<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep in this alluring exhibition &#8211; with its bronze heads and neon figures, dead heroes in clay and gold, tributes to the legends of Black music and history &#8211; is a piece of work that is has a quiet but powerful aura that you might just miss it. 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