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Thu 14 Nov 2024 to Sat 18 Jan 2025
26 Cork Street, W1S 3ND Ernest Cole: House of Bondage: Vintage works from the Ernest Cole Family Trust - Part 1
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-5pm
Artist: Ernest Cole
Goodman Gallery presents an exhibition in three parts between London, Paris and Cape Town by the late Ernest Cole. In collaboration with Magnum Gallery and the Ernest Cole Family Trust, the exhibition titled House of Bondage: Vintage works from the Ernest Cole Family Trust presents vintage hand prints by Cole; Part One at the London gallery this November. All three exhibitions present three different bodies of work. Shown at the gallery and seen across all three cities for the first time is a body of work titled “Black Ingenuity”, which captures Black creative expression and cultural activity taking place under apartheid. Images of leading artists attending exhibition openings to racially mixed political rallies offer a new way of understanding of this period. Following two recent major solo exhibitions in London at The Photographer’s Gallery and Autograph as well as the republication of House of Bondage and publication of The True America in 2022 and 2023 by Aperture, this exhibition provides perspectives from South Africa and the wider Continent, with artists, writers and curators contributing a contemporary reading on Cole’s creativity.