DIVINE SOUTHGATE-SMITH EXHIBITION
Part of Budapest Photo Festival, Spring 2024
Divine Southgate-Smith (b. 1995, Lome, Togo) is a British trans-disciplinary artist. Raised between Paris and London, she studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2019-2023.
Southgate-Smith has developed a practice comprising film, text, spoken word, performance, sound, installation, sculpture, furniture design, and 3D rendering. Her work often references and questions articulations of black, queer, and female experience. She navigates hypothetical spaces where things are abstracted, contextualised, de-contextualised, omitted, revealed, voiced, or silenced.
Through questioning the traditional equation between sight and understanding - she invites us to observe and question the relationship between visual representation, stereotyping, oppression, position (societal and political), and empowerment.
Her approach to art-making is medium non-specific, allowing her to explore complex narratives through various mediums and disciplines. Southgate-Smith’s practice relies on research, hence, she deals with literature, music, intersectional discourse, and archive material as a source of inspiration and creation.
First solo exhibition featuring her Research-based Artistic Practice: TEETH KISSIN' On-going Series
Curator: Krisztián Gábor Török, curator, researcher and critic. He works as a curator at MODEM Modern and Contemporary Art Center in Debrecen. He graduated from the University of Glasgow in Art History in 2020. His focus is on socially engaged art.
Planned dates: April / May 2024
Organised and supported by the British Council. The exhibition is part of the Budapest Photo Festival 2024 Accompanying programs: artist talk, guided tours, screening.