Hat-trick of poignant exhibitions
The city has attracted three world-class exhibitions for the final part of the Wilberforce 2007 year.
Slave Britain, a photo exhibition which artfully documents the ordinary lives and everyday locations caught up in trafficking, and Uncomfortable Truths, a new and specially commissioned work by international artists highlighting and uncomfortable relationship between art and design and slavery, both opened on Friday 15 September.
While Anne Frank + You is an audio-visual experience and a journey of fact-finding and self exploration that will open on November 3 at Ferens Art Gallery.
Through interviews with British teenagers to photographic documentary evidence, ‘Anne Frank + You’ vividly brings historic and contemporary human rights issues to life, from the Holocaust and more recent genocide, to racism in football and the plight of child soldiers. Includes a virtually life size replica of Anne’s room in the Secret Annexe.
Slave Britain, which was produced by Panos Pictures in partnership with Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery International, Eaves and UNICEF UK, was first show at St Paul’s Cathedral and comes to Hull from the Edinburgh Festival.
It will run until October 15 at Hull’s Holy Trinity Church.
Uncomfortable Truths, organised by the V & A, London, will run at Ferens Art Gallery until Sunday 6 January 2008.
The cross-cultural experience of the trans-cultural Atlantic slave trade is reflected by the choice of artists who are from the United States, Britain, Africa and Europe, including Fred Wilson, Lubaina Himid, Yinka Shonibare, Romuald Hazoumé and Christine Meisner.
Published: 13/09/07
