Art present with JMW Turner carries set off warnings because it ‘has themes of slavery’
Trigger warnings have been slapped on an exhibition that includes work by the likes of JMW Turner.
Gallery bosses are frightened some artwork lovers may very well be upset by photos on show on the £22-a-ticket assortment.
The Royal Academy warns guests to Entangled Pasts, 1768–now Art, Colonialism and Change: “This exhibition will contain themes of slavery and racism, and historical racial language and imagery.”
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The RA says of the exhibition: “J.M.W. Turner and Ellen Gallagher. Joshua Reynolds and Yinka Shonibare. John Singleton Copley and Hew Locke. Past and current collide in a single highly effective exhibition.
“This spring, we bring together over 100 major contemporary and historic works as part of a conversation about art and its role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition and colonialism – and how it may help set a course for the future.”
Artworks by leading contemporary artists including Sonia Boyce, Frank Bowling, John Akomfrah and Isaac Julien will be on display alongside works by artists from the past 250 years including Joshua Reynolds, J.M.W.Turner and John Singleton Copley – creating connections across time which explore questions of power, representation and history.
“In the setting of our Main Galleries, experience large-scale works including the life-size painted cut-out figures of Lubaina Himid’s installation Naming the Money, and Hew Locke’s Armada, a flotilla of ‘votive boats’ recalling different periods and places,” says the RA.
“Plus, powerful paintings, photographs, sculptures, drawings and prints by El Anatsui, Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, Shahzia Sikander, Mohini Chandra and Betye Saar.
“Informed by our ongoing research of the RA and its colonial past, this exhibition engages around 50 artists connected to the RA to explore themes of migration, exchange, artistic traditions, identity and belonging.”
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