Tavares Strachan at the Hayward Gallery review – imaginative show delights, informs and calls us to action
Wherever you are on the ground floor of the Hayward Gallery, you hear voices speaking the words of James Baldwin. The quote they narrate provides the title of Tavares Strachan’s show, and it also appears as a neon text in a darkened room.
Strachan’s excerpt of the text begins, “One discovers the light…”, and ends, “It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light.”
Messages lurk within the wider text. The
