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This is the third online project that focuses on a work in Tate's Collection by a contemporary artist - the previous two being Damien Hirst's Pharmacy and Cornelia Parker's Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View. The focus this time is on Sonia Boyce's painting From Tarzan to Rambo: English Born `Native' Considers her Relationship to the Constructed/Self Image and her Roots in Reconstruction, 1987.
Boyce's painting is also the subject of a display at Tate Modern that examines representations of race and colour and what they reveal about cultural stereotyping. Planned in collaboration with the Sonia Boyce, the display includes specially-loaned works by Sutapa Biswas, Zoe Leonard, Anna Fox, Anthea Hamilton and Harold Offeh. Information about these artists and their work is also included here.
The Tate Modern display has been devised by Emma Dexter and Sonia Boyce, with assistance from Sophie McKinlay and Helen Sainsbury. We are grateful to the artist for her involvement with the project, to Richard Dyer for extracts from his book White, to Richard Stemp for creating the Ways of Looking section and to Ekow Eshun for his Points of View on the display. |
