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The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is showing the first survey exhibition of the British artist Isaac Julien (*1960 in London, lives and works in London and Santa Cruz/California) in Germany in its House of Contemporary Art K21. It is a groundbreaking body of work that pushes the boundaries of film and art with expansive cinematographic installations.
Julien’s cinematic imagination, his critical thinking and his activist engagement with decolonial aesthetics are expressed in his early films of the 1980s as well as in the extraordinary film images of his major, internationally acclaimed film installations of the last 20 years. Radically political and highly aesthetic at the same time, the works take up overlooked archive material and bring forgotten themes to the fore. Using poetry, dance, aesthetics, architecture and music, Julien explores the possibilities of the medium of film and breaks with traditional notions of linear history, space and time. The focus of his groundbreaking work is the demand for …
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Image above: Isaac Julien, Freedom / Diasporic Dream-Space No. 1 (Once Again…Statues Never Die), 2022 Inkjet print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag Framed: 273 x 183 x 5.6 cm (107 1/2 x 72 x 2 1/4 in) © Isaac Julien, Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro
