Reconciliation: The Unfinished Business of Liberation

Reconciliation: The Unfinished Business of Liberation
10 -12 October 2022

The works presented at Fitzrovia Chapel reflect on climate injustice and seek to propose routes to healing through reflection and collective dreaming.

A powerful site-specific soundscape, vibrant stain-glass paintings as well as sculptural clay paintings two years in the making– draw the individual to reflect on their own complicity and ways to redemption. It is a challenging exhibition but a hopeful one too.

Abstraction is used alongside universal symbols and familiar everyday objects to draw us into the picture, raising questions about our complicity, collusion and potential sources of individual and collective redemption.

About the artist:

Bokani is a multi-disciplinary artist making works that address climate justice and integral ecology. Chiefly concerned with our complicity, her works elicit a new response to nature and the patterns of our inter-connectivity.
She works across different mediums, abstract painting, sculpture, computational art and installations. Her streetart builds on a tradition of protest art bringing interconnected environmental, racial justice and economic issues to the wider public.

Bokani won the London audition of BBC 1’s The Big Painting Challenge 2018  series and went on to win the public vote in the televised show. Before being discovered by the BBC, Bokani was co-founder of a sustainability start-up for several years. She has been exhibited across the UK and in France.

Bokani is Zimbabwean born and raised, she lives and works in London. She studied politics with economics at the University of Bath, and has just completed a masters in computational art at Goldsmiths College.

10-12 October 2022, Free Entry.

Opening Hours:
4-8pm, Monday 10 October
10AM-6PM, Tuesday 11 October
10AM-4PM, Wednesday 12 October
Press Preview 10-11.30AM Tuesday 11 October (Invitation only)
Private View Reception 6-9PM Tuesday 11 October (Invitation only)