HEW LOCKE: PASSAGES (HB)

For the past thirty years, Guyanese British artist Hew Locke has used strategies of appropriation to reveal and upend the visual codes of imperialism. Locke’s oeuvre has been described as a “postcolonial baroque” that deconstructs and reimagines deeply entrenched iconographies of British sovereignty. Essays from leading curators, critics, and scholars of contemporary art reveal how Locke’s use of non-traditional materials enables the artist to reflect on his Guyanese-British heritage, and consider how the artist’s dense, highly textured, and multi-layered works fuse vernacular and formal traditions.