Join us for an exciting evening with acclaimed British Cameroonian artist Kialy Tihngang whose practise explores Blackness, queerness and Britishness, and the structural oppressions surrounding these intersecting identities.

Kaily’s work spans film, sculpture, textiles and performance to explore the misrepresentation, extraction and demonization of Black, particularly West African, cultural practises, throughout history. Using elaborate handmade sets, graphics, props and an aesthetic that blends retrofuturism and absurdism with the humour of Nollywood and the tropes of body horror, Kaily challenges the colonial histories and euro-centric narratives surrounding Black queer identities and bodies, Cameroonian culture and politics, and notions of Britishness.

From Neyinka and the Silver Gong, that reimagines a precolonial Scotland where formerly enslaved African people have escaped and formed a clan in uncharted Scottish islands, to her latest film, Out of Office, an auto-ethnographic exploration of misogynoir and neo-capitalism, Kaily draws on personal experiences to reimagine Black British and Cameroonian histories.

As part of Fane Online’s British Art Legends series, Kaily will speak with writer Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou about her multidisciplinary and aesthetically eclectic work, interrogating colonial narratives and its legacies, and queering the cultural contribution of both.

British Art Legends is a Fane Online series that celebrates visionary artists working in Britain today who challenge conventional narratives around British identity and history.

The event will initially be broadcast on 22 April at 6.30pm UK time. It will be available to view up to two weeks after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial showing for two weeks.
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