Dundee Contemporary Arts presents new and recent works by Ruth Ewan in her first major solo show in the United Kingdom.
‘Brank & Heckle’ will explore notions of enforced silence and vocal protest by combining the artist’s ongoing interest in creative forms of agitation with new work responding to Dundee’s social heritage.
The exhibition features a newly-commissioned sculpture based on photographs of a statue of Paul Robeson that went missing in the 1940s in suspicious circumstances. Archive material relating to Robeson’s career and his experience of racism and political persecution will be presented alongside tomatoes of the black-fleshed variety ‘Paul Robeson’, specially grown for display in the galleries.
