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Visual Arts previews from around the region
Maxine Walker: Untitled Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, until Mon 30 August
Active as a photographer for 12 years, from 1985 to 1997, Maxine Walker is here presenting not only her first solo exhibition in more than two decades but also her first ever in the city of her birth. Engaging with the politics of Black female identity and aiming to challenge racial identity stereotypes, Untitled sees Maxine transforming herself into numerous characters and using the medium of photography to interrogate the intricacies of skin, Blackness and being. The photographs are on loan from the V&A, which acquired them as part of its Staying Power project. Presented in partnership with Black Cultural Archives, the project aimed to explore Black British experience from the 1950s through to the 1990s.
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