Sonia Boyce in TRANSFEMINISMS CHAPTER IV: CARE AND KINSHIP, Mimosa House, London
Sonia Boyce’s installation Devotional Wallpaper and Placards features in the fourth instalment of ‘Transfeminisms’, a series of thematic group exhibitions that bring to light a multiplicity of urgent, pressing and ongoing issues faced by women, queer and trans people across the globe.
This chapter entitled ‘Care and Kinship’ celebrates community, collective ritual, and ancestors and also includes works by Marcia Harvey Isaksson, Lubaina Himid, Gulnur Mukazhanova, SaVĀge K'lub and Buhlebezwe Siwani.
Boyce’s Devotional Wallpaper and Placards series (2008-2022) is a long-term project that emerged from a collaboration with the Liverpool Black Sisters collective in 1999. Boyce invited the participants to recall the first record they ever bought and to name a Black British female singer. Realising the erasure of these performers, the artist proceeded to create a collective historical mapping reinscribing their names within Britain’s and the world’s music histories. The resulting wallpaper and placards not only bring them back to our memory, they also speak to the Black female sonic presence forming part of personal and collective existence beyond Black life and histories.
The exhibition is co-curated by Christine Eyene, Daria Khan, Jennifer McCabe and Maura Reilly.
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Transfeminisms: Chapter IV: Care and Kinship
Mimosa House,
47 Theobalds Rd,
London, WC1X 8SP