Exhibition: W.E.B. Du Bois, Charting Black Lives
@ Meterhuis, Westergasfabriek Amsterdam
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Illustration Embassy exhibits the exhibition W.E.B. Du Bois: Charting Black Lives in collaboration with The Black Archives, a traveling exhibition by The House of Illustration. An exhibition about the impact of data visualization. The exhibition was previously shown in London and now from November 10 to December 29, 2021 at the Westergas in Amsterdam.
WEB. Du Bois is one of the most important and influential African American activists and intellectuals of the 20th century. A co-founder of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and author of the seminal book The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois is celebrated for his profound and prolific writings. But alongside his famous essays, Du Bois produced an astounding – yet little-known – body of infographics to challenge pseudo-scientific racism, making visual arguments every bit as powerful as his textual ones. |
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W. E. B. Du Bois: Charting Black Lives displays the complete set of 63 graphics shown at the 1900 Paris Exposition, produced by Du Bois and a team of African American students from his sociology laboratory at Atlanta University. These visually innovative graphs, charts and maps formed a radical new approach to refuting racism, using strikingly presented facts and statistics.
Alongside reproductions of Du Bois’s graphics, the exhibition presents original artwork by Mona Chalabi, Data Editor at The Guardian, repurposing his distinctively clean lines, arresting shapes and bold primary colours for the 21st century.
WEB. Du Bois: Charting Black Lives is co-curated by Paul Goodwin, professor at the University of the Arts London, curator, scholar and specialist in Black urbanism. Exhibition designer Violetta Boxill based her design on Du Bois' original exhibition design based on photographs from 1900, now in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
The Black Archives (TBA) is a historical archive and cultural center for inspiring conversations, activities and literature from Black and other perspectives that are often overlooked elsewhere. TBA has made special archival documents available that depict Black hidden history and showing the connection between W.E.B. Du Bois and Black activists in the Netherlands.
Opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday from 1 pm to 5 pm. Westergas, Pazzanistraat 6, Amsterdam.Entrance fee: €5 (excluding reservation costs)
Accessible with time lock. Buy tickets here.
WEB. Du Bois: Charting Black Lives is co-curated by Paul Goodwin, professor at the University of the Arts London, curator, scholar and specialist in Black urbanism. Exhibition designer Violetta Boxill based her design on Du Bois' original exhibition design based on photographs from 1900, now in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
The Black Archives (TBA) is a historical archive and cultural center for inspiring conversations, activities and literature from Black and other perspectives that are often overlooked elsewhere. TBA has made special archival documents available that depict Black hidden history and showing the connection between W.E.B. Du Bois and Black activists in the Netherlands.
Opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday from 1 pm to 5 pm. Westergas, Pazzanistraat 6, Amsterdam.Entrance fee: €5 (excluding reservation costs)
Accessible with time lock. Buy tickets here.