JMW TURNER WITH LAMIN FOFANA: DARK WATERS

JMW Turner, Peace - Burial at Sea, exhibited 1842. Oil paint on canvas, 87 × 86.7 cm. Tate Collection.

Tate Liverpool presents JMW Turner with Lamin Fofana: Dark Waters, a new exhibition featuring Turner’s work within an immersive sound environment created by artist and musician, Lamin Fofana.

Although creating work centuries apart, both artists convey the power and politics of the ocean and explore its relationship to capitalism and colonialism. Turner’s paintings focus on the dangers of the waters around the British coast and Fofana’s sound work looks across the Atlantic.

Tate Liverpool’s location on the waterfront, combined with Liverpool’s maritime history, provides the perfect context for us to consider Turner afresh. The exhibition features some of Turner’s most celebrated seascapes alongside his sketchbooks and works on paper.

Lamin Fofana translates the writing of pioneering Black authors into sound. Fofana’s work explores questions of movement, migration, alienation and belonging.

JMW TURNER WITH LAMIN FOFANA: DARK WATERS
27 September 2022 – 4 June 2023

Tate Liverpool
Royal Albert Dock
Liverpool L3 4BB
www.tate.org.uk