Isaac Julien: What Freedom is to Me

Titled What Freedom is to Me, the Tate Britain will present from April 26 to August 23, an ambitious solo exhibition that reveals the scope of Isaac Julien’s pioneering work in film and installation from the early 1980s through to the present day. The exhibition highlights Julien's critical thinking and the way his work breaks down barriers between different artistic disciplines, drawing from film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture by utilizing the themes of desire, history and culture.
The exhibition will present works from early films to large-scale, multi-screen installations which investigate the movement of peoples across different continents, times and spaces. Isaac Julien’s work across forty years will be presented for the first time in the UK.
Sir Isaac Julien, Commander of the Order of British Empire, was born in 1960 in London, where he currently lives and works. He rose to prominence with his 1989 film Looking for Langston, a poetic documentary and homage to Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. His work has since explored a variety of issues including black identity, diaspora, migration and capital.
"I'm interested in poetry. And in my work it's very much a sort of poetic quest for a language to express experiences which are part of the everyday experience of people like myself," expressed Isaac Julien.
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