His installations can feel like a mixture of independent cinema and a profoundly moving history lesson. The poems, once they’re ready (“I finished one last night!”), will join shorter films playing on seven screens as you move through the Curve gallery.

Of sitting down with people and saying, ‘Whatever it is you’ll offer, I’ll take.’” The ‘rememory’ part is this idea of listening practice. But you also get conversations and monologues ruminating on what it means to set down new roots in Europe, from academic George Shire and musician Thabo Mkwananzi, both Zimbabwean, as well as an incredibly charming Black American tour guide in Marseille. “The whole thing is stitched together as a chorus: the songs people gave as offerings to me,” he says. The new installation’s title comes from two books: Lorna McDaniel’s Praisesongs in Rememory of Flight and Paule Marshall’s novel Praisesong for the Widow. Julianknxx has first-hand experience of a shifting notion of home: he is Sierra Leonean, and fled the early 1990s civil war with family to spend a few years in Gambia before settling in London as a teen. The idea came to Julianknxx in 2021 when he was collaborating with choirs and dancers for his Black Corporeal series, which blended poetry, live singing and films into an exploration of Blackness and belonging.

‘Our histories are not really what the conqueror has tried to tell us’ … Julianknxx.

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