New exhibition launching soon as part of Black History Month 2022

Posted: 12/09/2022

We’re excited to present a new exhibition by Ebun Sodipo, as part of our Black History Month programme at our headline venue God’s House Tower.

For My Only Love, Yours in Body and Soul is a new solo exhibition by London-based multidisciplinary artist Ebun Sodipo, opening this October, which explores the changing attitudes towards Africans and their descendants in Southampton between the 16th and 20th century. 

The exhibition is centred around fictional love story between a woman living in Southampton and her lover who is always at sea, with Ebun having explored some of the lives of Southampton residents in this time period and love letters ‘found’ in the Southampton archives to inform her work. The love story will be told across love letters which merge visual and audio works to create a captivating show which explores themes of love and race.

The exhibition will be on display at God’s House Tower from Friday 7th October until Sunday 6th November and is free to visit.

We will also be hosting an exhibition launch event on Saturday 8th October. Stay tuned as we’ll be sharing more details including how to book your free ticket soon.

About the artist

Ebun Sodipo makes work for those who will come after: the black trans people of the future. Her interdisciplinary practice narrates her construction of a black trans-feminine self after slavery and colonialism. Through a process of fragmentation, collage, and fabulation, she devises softer, other- wise ways of imagining and speaking about the body, desire, archives, and the past.

Her work has been shown, read, watched, performed at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning Centre, Bernie Grants Arts Centre, Narrative Projects, Raven Row, The Block Museum of Art, South London Gallery, Arcadia Missa’s How To Sleep Faster, Auto Italia, ICA, Tate Britain, Embassy Gallery, Wasafiri, CCA Annex, Camden Arts Centre, Frieze. She was artist in residence at Porthmeor Studios, and Gasworks. She is  currently working on commissions for VISUAL Carlow, FACT Liverpool. She also teaches at Falmouth University.