Aperture Conversations
Zora J Murff in Conversation with Ekow Eshun
Thursday, February 17
6:30 p.m. BST
Against the backdrop of the current exhibition ‘At No Point In Between’, on view at Webber Gallery, and on the occasion of the new book True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis), we are excited to announce Zora J Murff will be joined for an in-person discussion with writer, curator and broadcaster Ekow Eshun.
True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis) is a chronicle of survival by trailblazing artist Zora J Murff. Murff constructs a manual for coming to terms with the historical and contemporary realities of America’s divisive structures of privilege and caste. In 2020, Zora J Murff was the recipient of the inaugural Next Step Award, a partnership between Aperture and Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York, with the generous support of 7|G Foundation. His exhibition at Baxter St this past fall titled “Bold As Brass (or, Third Year Review)” and his publication with Aperture, True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis), is the result of the inaugural Next Step Award.
An IRL event hosted at WEBBER gallery in partnership with Aperture. Numbers are limited, please RSVP to info@webber.gallery
Ekow Eshun is Chairman of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, overseeing the most prestigious public art programme in the UK, and the former Director of the ICA, London. He is the author of Africa State of Mind, nominated for the Lucie Photo Book Prize, and Black Gold of the Sun, nominated for the Orwell prize. He has contributed to monographs and publications on artists including Mark Bradford, Chris Ofili, Kehinde Wiley, John Akomfrah and Wangechi Mutu as well as to books including Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography, Between Worlds: Voyagers to Britain 1700-1850, and Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear. His writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, Granta, Esquire, GQ Style, Aperture, Wired and L’uomo Vogue. He is a Contributing Editor at Wallpaper magazine and is a member of the Advisory Board of Liquid Blackness journal. He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from London Metropolitan University.
Image: Zora J Murff, On Sight, 2017, from True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis) (Aperture, 2021). Zora J Murff, courtesy the artist and Webber Gallery, London
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