This major exhibition (4 July–26 September 2021), which originated at The Barbican, considers how masculinity has been coded, performed, and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day.
Works on view by Isaac Julien include his seminal 1989 film Looking for Langston and selections from the series After Mazatlàn III, 1999/2000. Reviewing the exhibition at the Barbican in the Guardian, Sean O'Hagan writes, 'If you have time to linger, be sure to watch Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston, an intoxicating meditation on gay desire, black identity and literary reputation that also works here as an interregnum between the rich overload of imagery elsewhere.'
Image: Isaac Julien, from After Mazatlàn III, 1999/2000
Suite of 6 colour photogravures
Paper size 22 x 30 inches
© Isaac Julien
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro
June 25 2021
