The debut of a new film installation by Isaac Julien is an event, and this new nine-screen work showing in the upper floor of the Wharf Road gallery has been six years in the making. Some of you may recall the work Stones against Diamonds, 2014 that took it’s title from a letter of Lina Bo Bardi’s, in which she extolled the virtues of semi-precious stones over precious ones. That moment marks the beginning of Julien’s fascination with Brazil’s great female modernist architect.
Image: Isaac Julien, installation view, Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement, Victoria Miro, 7 June–27 July 2019, © Isaac Julien, courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice
June 7 2019
