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Take a short tour of the Hayward Gallery exhibition Mickalene Thomas: All About Love in the company of presenter Lea Ogunlami and editor-in-chief of Polyester zine Ione Gamble.


The pair begin with Thomas’ large-scale mixed media portraits of Black women in restful poses. The works have featured prominently in promotion of the exhibition, but as Gamble states, ‘there’s another element that comes from looking at these pieces in person, seeing how the light bounces off it, and its different textures’. The paintings have a positivity about them, and as Ognulami suggests, ‘the adornment of the rhinestones screams self-love.’


There’s a look at the exhibition’s two living room installations, which each present ‘a glamorous space, a warm female space’ and give Ognulami in particular a sense of anemoia, a nostalgia for a time never actually known. The pair also view Thomas’ photography – for a long time a facet of preparatory study for the artist’s work, she has now begun to present her photos as works within their self.


Persisting through the pair’s look at All About Love is Thomas’ decontextualisation, deconstruction and recreation of works from the arts canon – a theme present in her piece Guernica (Resist #3), which draws on Picasso’s 1937 work of the same name. As Ognulami observes, ‘so often Mickalene’s work has been in contradiction to the artists she is referencing, but in Guernica (Resist #3) it’s in direct conversation’.

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