Maud Sulter: Passion

Passion presents the multi-layered work of Maud Sulter (1960—2008), a photographic artist, poet, and curator of Scottish-Ghanaian descent. In her short but influential career, Sulter reinvented the visual imagery of black women and highlighted the long-standing connections between Africa and Europe. This is the first time a major survey of Sulter’s work has been shown outside Scotland. It showcases works from the artist's major series, including Zabat, 1989, Hysteria, 1991, Syrcas, 1993 and Les Bijoux, 2002, alongside archival materials and documentation.

Sulter declared that she wanted ‘to put black women back in the centre of the frame’. She consistently sought to bring to light histories of those women – real or imagined – whose contribution to culture had been erased. And her art and poetry highlighted the long-standing connections between Europe and Africa.

Co-curated by Deborah Cherry and Malcolm Dickson, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow in partnership Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow, Autograph ABP, London and TrAIN, UAL.

Syrcas (1993), a major work that was chosen to represent Britain at the first Johannesburg Biennale, combines vintage postcards of Alpine landscapes, illustrations from publications on African art, and images of European art and photography. Ostensibly pages from a scrapbook made by ‘Helga’, a fictitious girl of Cameroonian descent whose parents are killed in the Third Reich, Syrcas links the horrors of African slavery with the European persecution of minorities in the 1930s and 1940s. This is the first time in over 20 years that these 16 large-scale images are presented in their entirety as a set.

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