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Is a British Exhibition About Resistance Stuck in the Past?
['About The Contributor', 'Johny Pitts Is An Artist', 'Writer', 'Curator Based In The Uk.']
Aperture
I played this game before a trip to see Resistance, an exhibition that was recently on view at the Turner Contemporary in Margate, England.
This approach to all subsequent political events—which frames the previous century as spilling into this one—risks aestheticizing and antiquating political struggle.
Or the working class men and women of Margate I saw populating the area around the Turner Contemporary?
Resistance, by comparison, felt like an echo, an exhibition stuck in the past, looking back at a struggle that has already been lost.
Resistance was on view at Turner Contemporary February 22, 2025, to June 1, 2025.
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'london'
'photographs'
'turner'
'political'
'familiar'
'contemporary'
'british'
'stuck'
'past'
'black'
'exhibition'
'resistance']