The Intimacies of Four Continents Kevin Beasley Japan and South Africa

Japan and South Africa

75" total length

Each set contains 6 unique cards with matching envelopes

but all are made with care

Reproduced on the occasion of the ICA 2010 Gala by kind permission of the Hammer Museum

The Intimacies of Four Continents Kevin Beasley Japan and South AfricaLisa Lowe In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo American empire, observing that