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Level 3 Northumbria University Gallery

Larry Achiampong Wayfinder

20 May 2023 – 29 Oct 2023
Baltic+ What to Expect

Achiampong draws on his shared and personal heritage to explore class, gender, the intersection between popular culture and the residues of colonisation across our Level 2 and Level 3 galleries.

A gallery room is filled with office chairs, fun bin bags, and Henry Hoovers while a projected screen plays a film.

Baltic presents the first major solo exhibition by artist Larry Achiampong. Working in film, sculpture, installation, sound, collage, music and performance, Achiampong draws on his shared and personal heritage to explore class, gender, the intersection between popular culture and the residues of colonisation. His work examines digital identities and constructions of ‘the self’, offering multiple perspectives that reveal the deeply entrenched inequalities in our society.

The exhibition in our Level 3 gallery includes the commissioned feature-length film Wayfinder (2022) which follows a young girl’s intrepid journey across England, from Hadrian’s Wall in the North to Margate in the South, and the people and places she encounters. Set in a pandemic, Achiampong’s most ambitious film to date considers class and economic exclusion, belonging and displacement, cultural heritage and the meaning of home. Other works include the largest UK presentation of the artist’s multi-disciplinary Relic Traveller project (2017–ongoing) alongside sculpture, photographs, video and a gaming room on Level 2.

 

Screening times for Wayfinder (2022) film are as follows:

 

  • 10.15am
  • 11.45am
  • 1.15pm
  • 2.45pm
  • 4.15.pm

 

This exhibition has been organised by Turner Contemporary with MK Gallery and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. The film Wayfinder has been commissioned by Turner Contemporary with MK Gallery and Baltic.

Poignant and inclusive, the British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong’s first major solo show roams through class, race and the English landscape, always circling back to his own family

Laura Cumming

The Observer

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