Lubaina Himid

Alongside the exhibition Attendre ensemble at the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Le Festival d'Automne and the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris presents A Fashionable Marriage (1986), a key element in Lubaina Himid’s early work within the British Black Arts Movement. Forty years after it was created, this installation continues to be emblematic in terms of its practice by virtue of its precise articulation between the re-reading of art history—in this instance, the English satirical tradition not unlike that of William Hogarth and from which came the inspiration for the characters—and contemporary commentary on the state of British society.

Heralding the return of the Festival d’Automne to the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Lubaina Himid brings us, in collaboration with Magda Stawarska, a unique installation the scale of which is in keeping with the building itself. Encompassing paintings, sound, textiles and engravings, her project links overall history to individual identities based on the universal theme of waiting.