Impressions Gallery, Bradford
01 April - 04 June 2016
Passion presents the multi-layered work of Maud Sulter(1960—2008), a photographic artist, poet, and curator of Scottish-Ghanaian descent. In her short but influential career, Sulter reinvented the visual imagery of black women and highlighted the long-standing connections between Africa and Europe. This is the first time a major survey of Sulter’s work has been shown outside Scotland.
Sulter declared that she wanted ‘to put black women back in the centre of the frame’. She consistently sought to bring to light histories of those women – real or imagined – whose contribution to culture had been erased.She passionately believed in the long-intertwined histories of Africa and Europe, contesting the notion that the black presence in the UK was a recent arrival. As an award-winning poet, Sulter interwove words, poems, and texts into her visual work, and was frequently inspired by literature.
Passion is a Street Level Photoworks/Autograph ABP partnership in association with TrAIN, and was originally premiered at Street Level from April to June 2015.
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Impressions Gallery
Street Level Photoworks Exhibition
Banner Image: Duval, from the series 'Syrcas' (1993) © Maud Sulter, courtesy the Estate of Maud Sulter
Left Image: Terpsichore from the series ‘Zabat’ (1989) © Maud Sulter, courtesy Edinburgh City Art Centre