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Three canvases produce this work. Two smaller canvases sit either side of a larger canvas; the smaller canvases display green arches across a pale pink background, with darker pink paint on one corner. The central canvas is the largest and has an orange border with black and green lines and again the green arches on a pink background in the centre. Himid won the Turner Prize in 2017. 'It is part of a series entitled "Revenge: A Masque in Five Tableaux" that the artist finished in 1992 and first exhibited that same year at Rochdale Art Gallery. The series comprises twelve works (ten paintings, an installation and a drawing on paper) that includes pieces suggestive of modernist abstraction and African fabric and textiles and figurative works presenting pairs of black women in a range of scenarios.
'Her work emphasises the contribution of African migrants to the development of European culture. In her 1992 discussion of Himid’s "Revenge" series, the curator and art historian Jill Morgan outlined the possible political implications of her works: 'In "Revenge", the apparently abstract paintings which read in terms of the modernist canon refer to male, abstract painting, in fact weave around the concept of fabric. The making of cloth, the creation of patterns, women’s clothing and fabric, the existence of fabric as a form of black women’s creativity. Lubaina [Himid] has chosen fabric to be the ground, the arena for the battle with imperialism.' (Jill Morgan, ‘Women Artists and Modernism’, in Rochdale Art Gallery 1992, p.24)
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Wolverhampton
Title
Invasion
Date
1992
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Measurements
H 213.5 x W 152.5 cm
Accession number
OP952
Acquisition method
purchased with the assistance of The Heritage Lottery Fund Collection Cultures, 2016
Work type
Painting