BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6880@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20220927 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20230605 DTSTAMP:20220624T133539Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/tate-liverpool-jmw-turner-with-l amin-fofana-dark-waters/ SUMMARY:Tate Liverpool: Tate Liverpool: JMW TURNER with LAMIN FOFANA: DARK WATERS DESCRIPTION:The power and politics of the sea link JMW Turner and sound art ist Lamin Fofana across the centuries at Tate Liverpool\n\nJMW TURNER with LAMIN FOFANA: DARK WATERS\n\n27 September 2022 – 4 June 2023\n\nSupport ed by the JMW Turner with Lamin Fofana: Dark Waters Exhibition Supporters Group with additional support from Mylands and Tate Liverpool Patrons\n\n £10\n\nJMW Turner with Lamin Fofana: Dark Waters focuses on the power an d politics of the sea. Tate Liverpool’s location on the city’s waterfr ont\, combined with the city’s maritime history\, provides the perfect c ontext for us to consider Turner (1775–1851) afresh. Conveying the inten sity and diversity of life on the ocean\, Turner’s work will be presente d for the first time within an immersive sound environment created by arti st Lamin Fofana (b.1982).\n\nAlmost a third of Turner’s work features th e sea\; from the paintings that first established his reputation to his la te experimental canvases. By the end of his life\, Turner had defined an e ntirely new marine aesthetic in British art and beyond. The exhibition fea tures paintings\, sketchbooks\, and works on paper by Turner that capture a time of great change in our island’s relationship with its surrounding coast.\n\nThe exhibition includes some of Turner’s most celebrated seas capes\, works such as Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth ex hibited 1842\, A Disaster at Sea c.1835\, and Sunrise with Sea Monsters  c.1845\, which encapsulate Turner’s ability to convey the jeopardy of life at sea.\n\nAs part of Tate’s commitment to open up new perspectives on British art\, the exhibition will feature the work of Lamin Fofana\, w ho translates the writing of pioneering black authors into sound. The Sier ra Leonean-born artist and musician currently lives in New York\, and his work explores questions of movement\, migration\, alienation and belonging .\n\nFofana's Life and Death by Water 2021 is partly based on the writin g of pioneering black writer\, academic and activist W. E. B. Du Bois\, sp ecifically his radical literary work of 1920\, Darkwater: Voices from Wit hin the Veil.\n\nTurner’s paintings focus on the dangers of the waters a round the British coast\, while Fofana’s immersive sound work looks acro ss the Atlantic\, uncovering the horrors of the middle passage and\, in pa rticular\, the infamous massacre aboard the slave ship Zong\, when 132 Afr icans were thrown overboard.\n\nAlthough creating work centuries apart\, b oth artists convey the power and politics of the ocean\, and its relations hip to capitalism and colonialism.\n\nJMW Turner with Lamin Fofana: Dark W aters is curated by Laura Bruni\, Assistant Curator\, Tate Liverpool with Ammarah Saleem\, Exhibitions Trainee. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2022/06/A-Disaster-at-Sea-1835-N00558-scaled.jpg LOCATION:Tate Liverpool\, Albert Dock\, Liverpool\, L3 4BB\, Liverpool\, Un ited Kingdom GEO:53.4003;-2.9927 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Albert Dock\, Liverpool\, L 3 4BB\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Tate Liverpo ol:geo:53.4003,-2.9927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220327T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221030T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR