Liz Johnson Artur & Martine Rose: 'I Will Keep You in Good Company' [Screening & talk]

Join acclaimed photographer Liz Johnson Artur and renowned designer Martine Rose for an evening of film and conversation to celebrate the launch of Johnson Artur’s new book, I Will Keep You in Good Company.  

The evening will begin with a screening of three films by Johnson Artur. Sitting in dialogue with the artist’s personal workbooks and celebrated Black Balloon Archive, the films reflect on Black British history, resistance and community in the context of the Windrush Scandal of the late 2010s and the geopolitical history of the artist’s own Ghanaian-Russian heritage. The screening will be followed by a conversation between the photographer and Martine Rose, as well as a special book signing. We hope you’ll join us. 
 
Tickets here. 

Film Programme: 
  
Real Times (2018) by Liz Johnson Artur, 12 minutes 
 
Black Balloon Archive (2016) by Liz Johnson Artur, 19 minutes 
 
Afro Russia (2019) by Liz Johnson Artur, 13 minutes 

Wednesday 1 October 
19:00

Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall
London SW1Y 5AH
United Kingdom

About I Will Keep You in Good Company

I Will Keep You in Good Company brings together pages and fragments from over twenty of Johnson Artur’s personal workbooks – handmade volumes she has kept since the early 1990s. Part diary, part experimental playground, these books are where she shaped her photographic language through layering, cutting, annotating, and assembling: a space for processing not only images, but life itself. 

Can't make the event? Purchase a copy here.