The ecstatic visions of Isaac Julien

In Art Guide Australia, Michael Sun writes on Once Again... (Statues Never Die), "Julien stages a far thornier discourse around art and its colonial injuries. He visits, again and again, an imagined dialectic between two cultural confrères and sometimes combatants: Alain Locke, the Black author who ignited the Harlem Renaissance of the early 1900s, and Albert Barnes, the rapacious collector whose gallery—Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation—first commissioned this work to celebrate its centenary... Julien crafts a collage of references, each mourning the lingering wounds of the colonial project."

Once Again... (Statues Never Die) is currently showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia.  The exhibition closes 16 February 2025.