Isaac Julien, curator of Rock My Soul, discusses the exhibition in the Evening Standard

'You could call this exhibition a homage to my mother,' says Isaac Julien of Rock My Soul, the show by female or non-binary artists from the black diaspora that he has curated at the Victoria Miro Gallery. The 59-year-old London film-maker and installation artist set out to capture the 'zeitgeist and energy of a movement', a new surge in appreciation around such artists that he thinks is comparable to the Harlem Renaissance of the Twenties. 

 

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Image: Portrait of Isaac Julien, 2019

Photography: Matt Writtle

 

 

October 1 2019