Lubaina Himid RA
'Naming the Money' paper-works
9 December 2023 - 14 July 2024
Collection Gallery | Burlington Gardens
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Fri: 10am–9pm
Free
no booking required
Discover paper-works by Lubaina Himid RA, relating to her immersive Turner-prize winning installation 'Naming the Money' in this free display.
This free display highlights Lubaina Himid’s Royal Academy ‘Diploma work’, a set of 20 paper-works relating to her immersive Turner-prize winning installation Naming the Money.
Himid describes Naming the Money as "the story of the slave/servant, but also of the leper, of the émigré, of the refugee, of the asylum seeker". It features 100 life-size cut-out figures all allotted one of ten roles, including toy makers, drummers, painters and shoemakers, along with a soundtrack of their stories.
The paper-works on display here were produced as somewhere between a ‘sketch’ and a ‘pitch’, a way of working out how the cut-outs would look.
The life-sized painted cut-out figures of Himid's Naming the Money will be part of Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change in our Main Galleries, 3 February – 28 April 2024.
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Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Fri: 10am–9pm
Free
no booking required
Gallery
The Herbalist, from the installation ‘Naming the Money’ paperworks, 2004
The Shoe Maker, from the installation ‘Naming the Money’ paperworks, 2004
The Ceramicist, from the installation ‘Naming the Money’ paperworks, 2004
The Drummer, from the installation ‘Naming the Money’ paperworks, 2004
