Denzil Forrester features in 'Beautiful Collisions' at SXSW London

Beautiful Collisions is a week-long immersive exhibition featuring leading contemporary artists working across painting, music and performance. The show will explore the significant role of Caribbean diaspora artists in London’s cultural scene. Housed in Christ Church Spitalfields, the installation will celebrate the relationship between the church and the dance hall; image and music; kinship and community.

At the centre of the exhibition are the vibrant paintings of Denzil Forrester, capturing the dynamic energy and sense of community of East London’s reggae and dub nightclub scene during the early 1980s. Forrester’s work will be complemented by contributions from renowned artist Tavares Strachan along with Alvaro Barrington and Jamaican musician Runkus.

Alongside this, Zinzi Minott will present this year’s iteration of Fi Dem, an annual multimedia project made on the anniversary of the docking of Empire Windrush. Like Minott, Alberta Whittle's, sculptural installation will meditate on the ongoing erasure of Black bodies, voices and narratives as well as experiences of Black women.

Beautiful Collisions is curated by Beth Greenacre.