Sir Isaac Julien glad to be sharing his work in ‘home city’ by DredieMann Tate isaacjulien
The exhibition, titled: What Freedom Is To Me, will feature a selection of key works from Julien’s ground-breaking early films and immersive three-screen videos made for the gallery setting, to the kaleidoscopic, sculptural multi-screen installations for which he is renowned today.
He added: “I’ve been up to quite a few things, so it’s great to be able to share all of those works with everybody and I’m quite excited to see the response. His use of these varied disciplines is evident in his pivotal film exploring Black, queer desire – Looking for Langston – which brings together poetry and image to look at the private world of the Black artists and writers who were part of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s.
He added: “There are lots of different works and the eighties is a whole area. It’s when I was in the Sankofa Film and Video Collective when I first started making work. That period was also when my work started to get reviewed by The Voice actually, and dare I say, we weren’t happy about the reviews we got.”He added: “The kinds of things that we thought in the Sankofa Film and Video Collective then, doesn’t escape me now, they are still similar thoughts.
“So that’s the starting point essentially, it’s really to chart his career from the eighties to the present day.”
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