ICA Short Docs | 'Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 – 2025'

Institute of Contemporary Arts Short 11 months ago

Beschreibung

'Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 – 2025' is a major group exhibition and event programme curated by Lubaina Himid celebrating 40 years since 'The Thin Black Line', the groundbreaking group show of young Black and Asian women artists at the ICA in 1985.

Works by all of the original artists – Brenda Agard, Sutapa Biswas, Sonia Boyce, Chila Kumari Burman, Jennifer Comrie, Himid, Claudette Johnson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan, Marlene Smith and Maud Sulter – are shown together for the first time since 1985.

'Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 – 2025' at Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 24 June – 7 September 2025.

Video produced by Fergus Carmichael.