Suspended States
Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Suspended States presented at Serpentine South from 12 April – 1 September 2024, revealing Yinka Shonibare CBE’s latest installations, sculptures, pictorial quilts, and woodcut prints. The publication includes newly commissioned texts by Distinguished SUNY Professor Nkiru Nzegwu; Dr. Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of V&A East; curator and poet Péjú Oshin; Alayo Akinkugbe, writer, researcher, and creator of A Black History of Art; and Ann Marie Peña, Chair of Curatorial Programme and a Founding Trustee of the Yinka Shonibare Foundation. Along with a conversation between the artist and Hans Ulrich Obrist, these texts explore the central themes of Suspended States including how systems of power affect sites of refuge, debates on public statues, the ecological impact of colonialization, and the legacy of imperialism on conflict and consequential attempts at peace. The catalogue also highlights Shonibare’s social practice including his Guest Project experimental space in East London and the Guest Artist Space (G.A.S.) Foundation he launched in Nigeria in 2019. The texts range from poetic prose to rigorous examinations of Nigerian aesthetics, often rooted in the author’s personal experience and demonstrating the far-reaching influence of Shonibare’s extensive career across disciplines and generations.
ISBN:
978-1-908617-84-2
Serpentine, London
978-3-7533-0652-0
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln
Edited by:
Lizzie Carey-Thomas
Alexa Chow
Tamsin Hong
Texts by:
Alayo Akinkugbe
Gus Casely-Hayford
Nkiru Nzegwu
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Péjú Oshin
Ann Marie Peña
Yinka Shonibare CBE
Dimensions - 30 x 24.5 cms
Portrait
Pages -144
0 black and white, 82 coloured illustrations.
Binding: Softcover
Publication date - April 2024
A press text of the book in 5-10 sentences (English, c. 800 characters)
Language: English
Image Credit - © 2024. Photo: readsreads.info
Artist
Yinka Shonibare CBE
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (b. 1962, London, United Kingdom) has an interdisciplinary practice which uses Western art history and literature to question the validity of contemporary cultural and national identities within the context of globalisation. As a celebrated British-Nigerian artist working between London and Lagos, Shonibare was awarded the honour of ‘Commander of the Order of the British Empire’ in 2019. In 2004, he was nominated for the Turner Prize and in 2008 and in 2010, his first public art commission, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, was displayed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. The Tetley commissioned Shonibare’s Hibiscus Rising, a major public memorial in Leeds for David Oluwale, which opened in November 2023. In November 2022, Shonibare launched Guest Artists Space (G. A. S.) Foundation, a non-profit based in Nigeria dedicated to facilitating cultural exchange through residencies, public programmes, and exhibition opportunities. Shonibare’s works are in notable museum collections both local and international, including the Tate Collection, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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