Londoners, be sure to visit the newly opened display of silk-screen prints by the Gambian-British photographer Khadija Saye at the British Library. The talented young artist was tragically killed in the Grenfell Tower fire of 2017, just months after her work went on display in the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. This exhibit comprises nine self-portraits from Saye’s series In This Space We Breathe, each depicting the artist with “cultural, religious and spiritual objects of significance both to her Christian mother and Muslim father, and in African traditions of spirituality”. The result (in the words of curator Dr Marion Wallace) is a body of imagery that is astounding in its “originality, complexity and profundity”.
