Rut Blees LuxemburgTyson/Bombardier 2003

Tyson/Bombardier and Untitled (Sofa) (Tate P20268) belong to a series of eleven photographs taken in Dakar, Senegal collectively titled Phantom. The series was commissioned by Tate Liverpool for display in the gallery’s Project Space in spring 2003. The maritime centre of West Africa, Dakar is a modern metropolis combining French colonial architecture with more recent hybridised African styles. Dakar and Liverpool have historic links through colonialism and the slave trade, but Dakar is now considered a fashion and culture capital, and so relates to contemporary Liverpool on a more positive level… (read more)