Press kit

Lubaina Himid Naming the Money 31.10.2019 — 23.02.2020 On the cover: Lubaina Himid, Naming the Money (2004). Exhibition view Navigation Charts, Spike Island, Bristol, 2017. Courtesy the artist, Hollybush Gardens, London and National Museums : International Slavery Museum. Photographer: Stuart Whipps. GENERAL EXHIBITION INFORMATION Lubaina Himid: Naming the Money 31.10.2019 – 23.02.2020 Nave of the museum

CURATOR

Alice Motard

OPENING

Wednesday, 30 October 2019 at 7 pm

PRESS PREVIEW

Wednesday, 30 October 2019 at 11:30 am

EXHIBITION PARTNER With the support of Fluxus Art Projects, a Franco-British programme for contemporary art supported by the French Ministry of Culture, the Institut français and the British Council.

PRESS CONTACTS Pedro Jiménez Morrás Head of press and communication CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux T. +33 (0)5 56 00 81 70 (l.directe) Mob. +33 (0)6 71 12 79 48 [email protected]

Lola Véniel Claudine Colin Communication T. +33 (0)1 42 72 60 01 Mob. +33 (0)6 85 90 39 69 [email protected]

1 PRESS RELEASE Naming the Money

Bordeaux, CAPC’s 2019 programme concludes with an exhibition by the 2017 September 2019 winner Lubaina Himid centred on the presentation in the nave of her seminal installation Naming the Money (2004). A key work in the career of the British artist, it consists of nearly one hundred life-size painted plywood cut-outs that bring to life African servants depicted in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European court paintings.

A figurehead of the Black Arts movement in 1980s Britain, Himid has been developing a multifaceted œuvre across four decades in which she combines art- making, curating, archiving and teaching to explore the marginalisation of the black diaspora in contemporary society.

By removing the protagonists of Naming the Money from contexts in which they were instrumentalised as signifiers of their masters’ wealth and social status, Himid gives them back a body and a name, thus restoring their agency for collective action. In the installation, these slaves, who were employed in European courts as ceramists, herbalists, toy makers or dog trainers, are heard speaking about their changing identities as they were forced to shed their African names and occupations in favour of the new roles imposed on them. Naming the Money, which has recently been donated by the artist to the National Museums Liverpool, extends the experience of slavery to all ‘migrants’ whose personal identities are deconstructed and reconstructed under pressure from global political and economic forces.

Occupying the centre of the nave, the installation also calls to mind the initial purpose of the warehouse that has been housing the CAPC since the 1970s. Built in 1824, nearly ten years after the official abolition of the slave trade, it was used to store colonial goods (coffee, sugar, cocoa, cotton, rum, wine, cod, spices, etc.) in transit to Northern Europe, sustaining the city’s maritime trade for more than a century.

As a counterpoint to this colourful crowd with which viewers are encouraged to mingle, Himid is showing nine diptych paintings with abstract geometric patterns. Inspired by real or inner journeys to her native island, the series of paintings entitled is suggestive rather than illustrative, its deafening silence forming a stark contrast to Naming the Money.

2 BIOGRAPHY Lubaina Himid

Lubaina Himid was born in 1954 in Zanzibar, , of a Comorian father and an English mother. She moved to the UK in her early childhood and now lives and works in Preston, where she teaches contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire. She is represented by Hollybush Gardens in London.

Her work has been the subject of recent monographic exhibitions at the New Museum, New York (2019); BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2018); , Liverpool (2017); and Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2017). Her extensive joint retrospective at Spike Island, Bristol, and in 2017 as well as her participation in The Place is Here at Nottingham Contemporary earned her the nomination for the Turner Prize, which she won that same year. In 2019, her work will also be shown in monographic exhibitions at Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, and Britain, London.

3 IMAGES AVAILABLE FOR THE PRESS

Lubaina Himid Shutters Only Hide the Sun (Zanzibar) 1999 Acrylic on canvas 101 x 304 cm Exhibition view Lubaina Himid: Naming the Money, CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (31.10.2019 – 23.02.2020). Photo: Arthur Péquin

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Lubaina Himid Cloves Numbing Harming Soothing Strong (Zanzibar) 1999 Acrylic on canvas 101 x 304 cm Exhibition view Lubaina Himid: Naming the Money, CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (31.10.2019 – 23.02.2020). Photo: Arthur Péquin

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Lubaina Himid (october 2019) in her exhibition Lubaina Himid: Naming the Money, CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (31.10.2019 – 23.02.2020). Photo: Frédéric Deval / mairie de Bordeaux

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Lubaina Himid, Naming the Money, 2004 Exhibition view Lubaina Himid: Naming the Money, CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (31.10.2019 – 23.02.2020). Photo: Arthur Péquin

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