Juliana Huxtable‘s solo exhibition at London’s Project Native Informant opened September 13 and ran to October 21.
The installation is an assemblage of fabric, posters and photography, where slogans and words crop up inconspicuously, rubbing against each other in their own conversation. ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Anti-Antifa’ appear tattooed on the same man’s body, badge and other punk insignias read ‘Ska & Rocksteady,’ ‘Corporeal Anarchy’ and ‘Rock Against Racism’ and ‘SwastikaFetish.’ Intertwined is another layer of imagined conversation through a dialogue taking place in speech bubbles.
A number of posters are plastered onto a painted green wall that move between a language of newspaper headlines and more personal notes or twitter captions, such as ‘THE OFFICIAL SHOES OF WHITE PEOPLE’ and ‘…SHE ADOPTED A BRITISH ACCENT TO LAND A SKINHEAD BOYFRIEND AND KEPT UP THE ACT FOR MONTHS.’
The artist, DJ, poet and performer also hosted an opening night after party at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club with DJ Calvin Klein and Manara to accompany the exhibition.