Sophie Orlando Livres

Focusing on the intersection of British Black Art and socio-political history, this work explores how anti-immigration policies and events like the Brixton riots shaped the movement. It analyzes key artworks by Lubaina Himid, Eddie Chambers, and Sonia Boyce, highlighting their critical engagement with Western art history. Art historian Sophie Orlando offers a fresh perspective, aiming to recontextualize this often-overlooked movement and its significance within broader cultural narratives. The book serves as a vital introduction to a marginalized artistic expression.

Archaeological Investigations With Uncertain Outcomes. In her conceptual drawings and multimedia installations, Katrin Ströbel (born 1975 in Pforzheim; lives and works in Marseille, Stuttgart, and Rabat) questions the social and geopolitical realities of the present with a simultaneously playful and critical eye. Her archaeology of everyday life pursues the political as decidedly as modern representations of the female body or practices of cultural appropriation - but also focuses on more private spaces, design objects, and interiors, such as the wallpaper in the studio of the Italian avant-garde artist Dadamaino. The astute negotiation of colonized bodies, spaces, and objects interspersed with cultural codes is reminiscent of Hanna Höch's early collages. Ströbel lends them her contemporary from the design classic Eames to current gender images to compendia of modern art history, the artist deconstructs Eurocentric culture with a critical-ironic gaze. The catalog offers an overview of works from 2016 to 2019. With accompanying texts by Julie Crenn, Iris Dressler, Sophie Orlando and Dorit Schäfer.