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Michael Kibedi
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Five Black men actors in a circle, facing each other on a darkened stage bathed in red light. The central actor is mid leap.
A group of actors on a darkened stage surrounding the central woman who is lit in red-purple light.
A single woman kneeling on a wooden parquet floor clutching yarn with straight knitted yarn tracks surrounding her.
A single abandoned wooden house that is boarded up and painted dark orange in an American city.
Mural of four stylised Black figures in front of a bright orange halo at the entrance of Brixton tube station.
Black male model on the catwalk wearing a buttoned-up khaki style jacket and bright silk red-orange-blue-purple trousers in a swirly pattern.
A line of 13 red and turquoise glass bottles on a white ledge, in front of a white wall, where one bottle has tipped over and its liquid has run down the wall.
Operation Match from Compatibility Research, a dating service poster showing a dark red male and female symbol overlapping.
The book "Where We Come From" by Aniefiok Ekpoudom, on a white marble table. The cover has a contemporary pink cover with broad brush strokes showing a small group of rappers in silhouette.
The book "Aeropolis" by Nerea Calvillo, on a white waffle fabric. The cover has a contemporary pink and off-white cover resembling clouds with AEROPOLIS in giant serif letters.
A shot of a curved wall and roof that catches light pink light.
A circuit board in a perspex cube on a plinth in a white walled gallery.
Perspective of this photo is from the sound looking up at a Black man dressed in white who is dropping some white pearls towards the lends. The head and shoulders of a Black women with her eyes closed is off to the side.
Kita Cha Enzi, a high-backed seat with bone and ivory inlay.
Inlay of the book "Counterblast" by Marshall McLuhan.
Slide showing a collage of photos of the artwork posters "THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE".
Still from the film American Fiction should the lead character in a bookshop carrying a stack of books.
Photo of the side of a building showing a colourful graffiti mural saying "Believe... Love More".
Black male model on the catwalk wearing a buttoned-up short-sleeved cream striped shirt with contrasting pink floral placket and bold print shorts.
Painting of a young Black woman whose skin tone is stylised in washed-out grey, who is wearing a colourful multicolour short-sleeved shirt.
Framed cover of UNTOLD magazine, a late 1990s magazine for British Black men showing a young black woman on the cover with the headline "Do you know what it means to be Black?".
A young Black model with hair plaited in stand out braids and oversized sunglasses wearing a vibrant orange and fuchsia wax-print dress that matches her background.
Two Black hip hop MCs seated next to each other, with a yellow background — one with baseball cap, the other with metal mask and glasses.
Eighteenth century portrait of an unknown Black man.
Punch cards suspended and stitched together to resemble waves.
Photo of a fashionable 1970's young Black woman mounted on a bright sunflower yellow wall.
Abstract landscape painting mounted on a lemon yellow wall.
Entrance to a building with art poster above the entrance "THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE".
Five young Black girls and one infant in 1950's America looking through a metal fence at a playground in distance filled with White children and families playing.
Interior of modernist concrete wall with colourful rectangular stained glass windows.
Black male standing in a grand room look left in profile wearing a dark green patterned coat and bright wide legged red trousers.
Eighteenth century bust of a Black man in a gallery.
Close up of a metal fence with rigid edges, looking up and at angle on a grey winter day.
Photo of a dark grey artwork framed with with border hanging in a gallery with grey walls and wooden floor.
Printed graphs of green, yellow and purple printed in a massive roll of paper that takes up a wall and continues along the floor of a gallery.
Close up of a textured white wall and roof that catches reflected pink, blue and pink light.
Artwork mounted on glass showing overlapping peach, blue black geometric shapes in a metro station.
Partly demolished building with a preserved neo-classical front, taken on a dark evening with two passers by in the foreground.
Black male on a catwalk wearing a faded pink and grey floral trenchcoat and similarly patterned bright wide legged trousers.
Accidental blurred photo that shows patterns of pink, purple, blue and movement lines of a blurred car.
Cover of a book "Ressurecting the Black Body" by Tonia Sutherland, showing an underlit darkened hand on a dark purple background.
Side-on view of a Mexican woman using a laptop in a dark room.
Album cover "Things Fall Apart" by The Roots, showing an image of a screaming Black woman running away in terror from White Police in Civil Rights era America.
"THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE" in Arabic and English, in white letters on a black background.
Black and white photo in a basement nightclub full of young people partying with their hand in the air.
Black and white photo of a man, showing the knees down, with slim cut trousers and a pair of Derby shoes with suede vamp and stylishly pointed toe.
Black and white photo taken at Photo taken at FESTAC '77 showing thousands of celebratory Black people.
Black and white photo taken of a crowded street scene in Paris with General de Gaulle in the centre, with a single black man, George Dukson, in the foreground to the right being manhandled and pushed out of the way.
Black and white photo showing the toppled statue of Louis Agassiz which landed and is wedged head first in the ground.
Black and white photo of artwork poster "THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE".
Black and white photo of three young African men who are soldiers in uniform, polishing their rifles during World War I.
Black and white photo of Exposition des Nègres D'Amerique, presenting early twentieth century research into the lives of American Negros in Georgia.
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