Internationally acclaimed film by Glasgow artist Alberta Whittle gets UK premiere at Glasgow Film Theatre before touring Scotland
Alberta Whittle’s Lagareh–The Last Born – which comes back to Scotland fresh from the 2022 Venice Biennale – draws focus on anti-racist and pro-Black advocacy, and Scotland’s historic connections to Transatlantic slave trade
Premiere kicks off a six venue Scottish screening tour & ahead of major solo show at National Galleries of Scotland
Glasgow Film Theatre will host the UK premiere of internationally acclaimed Barbadian-Scottish artist Alberta Whittle’s new film, Lagareh – The Last Born, on Tuesday 20 September 2022 (18:00). Press and review tickets are available.
Fresh from its highly praised presentation as part of Whittle’s World Premiere exhibition of new work at this year’s Venice Biennale – one of the world’s most prestigious visual arts festivals – the film gives primacy to the strength of contemporary Black womxn in Europe, West Africa and the Caribbean. These interconnected geographies, which formed ‘triangular route’ in the colonial era, are employed to reflect upon the traumatic legacies of chattel slavery, and its enduring impacts upon modern day policing and incarceration.
Commissioned by the Scotland+Venice partnership and Forma, LUX Scotland is touring the film to six venues across Scotland, with a programme of invited speakers at each location from September 2022 to March 2023, with support from Art Fund.
The Glasgow screening will be followed by a conversation between Alberta and Dr Peggy Brunache, lecturer in the history of Atlantic slavery at the University of Glasgow and Director of the newly established Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies.
Kitty Anderson, Director, LUX Scotland, said, “We are thrilled to be sharing Alberta’s work with audiences across Scotland, and to launch this tour in Glasgow where Alberta lives and works. The Scottish tour provides a wonderful opportunity to explore the key ideas in Alberta’s practice, and to extend the conversation to include the voices of some of her collaborators and others that have influenced her practice.”
The film is part of a wider body of work – deep dive (pause) uncoiling memory – currently being exhibited in Venice until November 2022 and featuring tapestry created in collaboration with Dovecot Studios and sculpture created in collaboration with Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Join Alberta for a virtual tour of the show and an insight into her approach to the work here.
National Galleries of Scotland will stage a major solo presentation of Alberta’s work in Spring 2023 which will explore her practice in depth, including works from the Venice exhibition.
