^{*Currently exhibited at Mudam Museum of Modern Art}

Artist, curator and educator Lubaina Himid’s work is widely considered a cornerstone of the British Black Movement. Spanning paintings, installations, exhibition-making, sound and writing, her practice challenges the historical erasure of the African diaspora’s contributions. Initially trained in theatre design and cultural history, Himid also possesses a profound interest in performance and sound, particularly opera, which often unfolds in artistic collaborations, such as those with Magda Stawarska. By painting the exteriors and interiors of salvaged objects, Himid manifests their latent histories, as exemplified in works such as Feeling Colour by Touch (2019), for which she used a Victorian-era dressing table as a canvas. The modular installation ‘Skip Doors’ (2024) comprises four severed doors, each painted or decorated to depict a staged act, ritual or event suggestive of a common reality, object or purpose amid states of movement, transition or transformation. Focusing on the half-sewn door as a threshold between liminal spaces, the series encompasses a site for the convening of memory and possibility.