Black Futures 2020
Re-imagining Care

Re-imagining Care is Black Cultural Archive’s
Black Futures Month commission in 2020.

Made possible with support from Arts Council England
and Google.org Charitable Giving Fund.

Re-imagining Care focuses on the black womxn’s arts movement in Britain over the last decades (an inclusive term used to foreground experiences of trans women and non-binary people), Pelumi Odubanjo curates a video series bringing the voices of multigenerational, multi-national, queer, and non-binary artists to the forefront to explore the label of a ‘Black artist’.

Meet the curator
Pelumi Odubanjo

Pelumi Odubanjo is a London- based multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator. Having recently completed her MA in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmith’s University London, her work is informed by ongoing explorations in Black liberatory practices, alongside the relationship which exists between black aesthetics and ontological blackness. Her most recent projects include working with the Tate Exchange at Tate Modern, co-founding the art research collective Contakt Collective, and being a recipient of the Forshaw Fine Art Endowment in 2019.  

Pelumi focuses her work on decolonial thought in practice and developing decolonial curatorial strategies. Her body of work explores the configuration of displaced histories through constructions of Black modernities.

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is an artist working predominantly in animation, sound, performance, and video games to communicate the experiences of being a Black Trans person.

Evan Ifekoya

Evan Ifekoya is an artist and energy worker who through sound, text, video, and performance places demands on existing systems and institutions of power, to recentre and prioritise the experience and voice of those previously marginalised.

Martina Attille

Martina Attille was a collective member of Sankofa Film & Video (London, UK). Attille is currently developing her thesis on the onscreen performativity of British Black women in avant-garde films, at the University of the Arts London

Libita Sibungu

Libita Sibungu is a British-Namibian artist whose solo and collaborative projects explore the political and spiritual relationships connecting the landscape to the body, told through personal and collective diasporic histories and legacies.

Marcia Michael

Marcia Michael is a British artist who challenges the presence of the Black subject within the auspices of the family album, using photography as a mode of documentation and conversation to renew a trans-disciplinary tradition of storytelling and historical recovery.