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Maud Sulter: Passion
Street Level Photoworks Glasgow 25 April to 21 June
The Scots-Ghanaian photographic artist and poet Maud Sulter, who died aged only 48 in 2008, once wrote: 'This whole notion of the disappeared ... is something that runs through my work. I'm very interested in absence and presence in the way that particularly blackwomen's experience and blackwomen's contribution to culture is so often erased and marginalised. [It is] important for me as an individual, and obviously as a blackwoman artist, to put blackwomen back in the centre of the frame - both literally within the photographic image, but also within the cultural institutions where our work operates.'
The current exhibition of her work at Glasgow's Street Level Photoworks amply demonstrates that Sulter meant business when she put 'blackwomen' back in the centre of the frame. Her large-scale, almost two-metre photographic 'portraits' have such presence that you cannot help but carry her images with you for weeks. Disappointingly, the show contains only a selection from several of Sulter's many series and does not embrace her poetry, prose, music and objects that she included in original installations.
This show, curated by Deborah Cherry and Ajamu, is nevertheless, the largest exhibition of...