Yinka Shonibare’s diverse practice wilfully subverts attempts to be categorised.
His materials and imagery demonstrate an engagement with the complexities of contemporary cultural experience; the relationships between modernism and modernity, post-colonialism and colonialism, ‘Britishness’ and ‘Africaness’, issues of class, history, design and artifice. The exhibition comprised of three new works; sculptural installations Hound and Cloud 9 and a large wall painting 100 Years. These works were shown alongside Victorian Philanthropist’s Parlour, 1996 – 97, an elaborate staging of a formal front parlour, with a twist.
