Lubaina Himid’s colorful paintings explore the influence of the African diaspora

Sarah Moroz | i-d.vice | 24th June 2019

Himid has the voice of an activist. She charges that Britain’s “selective version of the past” erases black people. To make that point with her art, she has drawn on the work of satirists like William Hogarth. Himid often puts her figures in formal groupings, in the style of eighteenth century paintings. Satire, she says, helps with the “task of taking apart old ways of holding on to power.”