KJ Abudu

How Blackness shaped the look of queer modernism

From KJ Abudu’s reckoning with the ghosts of Africa’s past at Pace, London, to a harrowing Howardena Pindell survey at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

Vanessa Peterson interviews curator KJ Abudu about the latest iteration of his project, currently on view at Pace Gallery, London

The provocative and politically prescient exhibition grapples with hard truths and traumatic histories 

The post-minimalist based her abstractions on one predicament - ‘I don’t know where I come from and I don’t know where I’m going’