A photographic art display at Horniman museum exploring contemporary relationships with spiritualism, reality and surrealism, through a Black British lens.

Drawing from personal experience, mythology and symbolism, artists Hamed Maiye and Adama Jalloh explore new ways to imagine spiritual identity through photography.

Afrosurrealism, first coined in 1974 by the poet Amiri Baraka, is a visual and literary movement that uses the surreal and otherworldly to visualise the present.

The exhibition highlights, in particular, the spiritual bond between twins and the meaning of the number 2 – images of twins are used throughout the series to show the mirroring of reality and surrealism, symbolising union and division.

An Ode to Afrosurrealism also aims to inspire younger artists to consider different ways of creating art by looking outside the usual canon of spiritual iconography.

DATES

Open daily until 7 November 2021 (except Wednesdays)

TIMES

10am – 5:30pm

TICKETS

Free

100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ