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Opening talk: Alberta Whittle | create dangerously (online)

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  • Friday 31 March, 12.45–1.45pm
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This is the online streamed version of the live event

To mark the opening of her major solo exhibition at Modern One artist Alberta Whittle will be in conversation with chief curator Lucy Askew. The largest showing of the artist's work to date, this immersive exhibition addresses the brutality of colonialism and racism through a lens of compassion and collective care.

Alberta Whittle, Entanglement is more than blood, 2022.

Tapestry woven by Dovecot Studios.

Cotton, linen, whaling rope, fishing rope, Venetian trading beads, children's hair clips, manillas, and cowrie shells; steel.

Co-commissioned by Scotland+Venice and Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh. Tapestry by Dovecot Studios. Installation view 'deep dive (pause) uncoiling memory', Scotland + Venice, 59th Venice Biennale, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow. Photo: Cristiano Corte.

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