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Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere features immersive installations, fantastical sculptures, striking collages, moving neon works and live performances that are both playful and profound. The exhibition highlights Strachan’s innovative approach to celebrating unsung explorers and cultural pioneers, whose stories have often been overlooked due to bias. In shining a light on these hidden histories, the artist highlights our shared yearning for belonging and recognition.
Born in the Bahamas in 1979 and now based in New City, Tavares Strachan’s exhibition uses scale and space that plays an important part of these installations, which invite the viewer to wander in and around a range of monuments, structures, and pathways. They can make you feel insignificant or significant.
Many of the art incorporated into the artist’s work portray real people or idols, like sound pioneer King Tubby, who influenced dub, an electronic music style that emerged from reggae in the 1960s and 1970s. And in “Game and Board (Marsha P. Johnson), the prominent gay rights activist dons a floral crown and a collar of grapes. Strachan highlights a connection to ancestry and the sacred, which is described as a “way of remapping” community and global connections of the African diaspora.
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.
There Is Light Somewhere continues through 1st September.
Written by Nura Arooj
