
In Tate Liverpool
Democracies
Free- Artist
- Lubaina Himid born 1954
- Medium
- Acrylic paint on plywood, wood and cardboard, and string
- Dimensions
- Overall display dimensions variable
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased using funds provided by the 2014 Outset/ Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection 2015
- Reference
- T14192
Online caption
The Carrot Piece shows a white man failing to tempt a black woman with a carrot. Her arms are already full with everything she needs. Himid says that when the work was made, cultural institutions ‘needed to be seen’ to be integrating black people into their programmes and ‘we as black women understood how we were being patronised ... to be cajoled and distracted by silly games and pointless offers. We understood, but we knew what sustained us… and what we really needed to make a positive cultural contribution: self-belief, inherited wisdom, education and love.’
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