Jimmy Robert in Conversation
Jimmy Robert in Conversation
The Hunterian | College of Arts
Date: Thursday 17 June 2021
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Venue: Zoom
Category: Exhibitions, Public lectures
Speaker: Jimmy Robert
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jimmy-robert-in-conversation-tickets-157938725981
Artist Jimmy Robert and curator Mason Leaver-Yap (Associate Curator, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin) join Dominic Paterson (Curator of Contemporary Art, The Hunterian) to discuss Robert's exhibition Tobacco Flower, currently on display in the Hunterian Art Gallery. Tobacco Flower is a major installation by Robert for Glasgow International, and focuses in particular on relationships between Europe and the Caribbean. Bringing together historical works from The Hunterian's collection with new works of his own in film, photography, sound and textile, Tobacco Flower attends to ephemeral traces of the past and brings them into new configurations. This conversation event will explore the exhibition's themes and the ways it extends Robert's existing body of work.
Jimmy Robert (b. 1975, Guadeloupe) lives and works in Berlin. Robert’s practice ranges across performance, film, photography, works on paper, and writing. His work subtly explores the intersections between art history, representation and subjectivity. Robert often reconsiders crucial moments from avant-garde art history, questioning their capacity to reflect the political complexities of lived experience, especially from a black, queer perspective.
Mason Leaver-Yapworks with artists to produce texts, exhibitions, and events. They have recently been working with Ingrid Pollard, Renée Green and Free Agent Media, Onyeka Igwe, Lin+Lam, Uri Aran, Evan Ifekoya, Oreet Ashery, Laura Guy, Sunil Gupta and the Estate of Tessa Boffin, Sharon Hayes and Mathew Parkin, Lucy McKenzie, Iman Issa, Wendy Jacob, Alejandro Cesarco, Jimmy Robert, Rachel O’Reilly, Andrea Büttner, Kat Anderson, Jamie Crewe, and Beatrice Gibson.
This event is supported by Glasgow International and Goethe-Institut.