In her new show at YSP, the London artist asks who makes the boundaries, and why
It was in 2021 that the British-Ugandan artist Lakwena Maciver was asked to put together a solo show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a contemporary art space that sprawls over rolling hillsides, through woodlands and into tucked-away galleries across an 18th-century estate in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. She toured the site’s 500 acres— once home to landed gentry and now to works by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ai Weiwei and James Turrell, among others — looking for inspiration.
An aerial view Lakwena Maciver’s ’Back in the Air – A Meditation on Higher Ground’, installed on Temple station’s roof terrace in central London, 2021Born in Enfield, north London, Maciver began to think about this and issues that now inform her work — colonialism, social oppression, freedom of speech — from an early age.
After studying graphic design at London College of Communication, a breakthrough project came in 2013, when she was asked to paint a wall in Miami. She emblazoned it with the words “I remember paradise”, recalling her time in Ethiopia. “It was the first big mural I did, and it opened a lot of doors for me,” she says. “And, in a way, it set the scene for what my work has continued to be about: decolonisation, ultimately, is paradise, isn’t it? When there’s no one trying to control you.
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