{"id":46017,"date":"2021-07-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernartoxford.org.uk\/cms\/?p=46017"},"modified":"2023-11-10T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T11:46:35","slug":"samson-kambalu-wins-trafalgar-square-fourth-plinth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.modernartoxford.org.uk\/cms\/samson-kambalu-wins-trafalgar-square-fourth-plinth\/","title":{"rendered":"Samson Kambalu wins Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We are excited to announce that artist Samson Kambalu will be one of two new commissions for Trafalgar Square\u2019s Fourth Plinth.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Samson Kambalu, who has a major solo exhibition at Modern Art Oxford (22 May &#8211; 5 September 2021)&nbsp;presents the powerful new sculpture, <em>Antelope<\/em> for the commission. <em>Antelope<\/em> restages a 1914 photograph of the Baptist preacher and pan-Africanist John Chilembwe and European missionary John Chorley. Currently on display as a maquette at Modern Art Oxford, the sculpture for Trafalgar Square features Chilembwe with his hat on, defying the colonial rule that forbade Africans from wearing hats in front of white people.&nbsp;Significantly, Chilembwe is larger than life on the plinth while Chorley is life-size, an elevation of Chilembwe and his story which reveals the hidden narratives of underrepresented peoples in the history of the British Empire in Africa and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second winning commission is by Teresa Margolles and features the faces of 850 trans people from London and around the world. Margolles\u00a0works closely with this marginalised community that sometimes is unable to access social care. The faces, or \u2018life masks\u2019 will be arranged round the plinth in the form of a Tzompantli, a skull rack from Mesoamerican civilisations (an area covering Central Mexico to northern Costa Rica).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about Samson Kambalu: <em>New Liberia <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernartoxford.org.uk\/event\/samson-kambalu-new-liberia\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about Trafalgar Square&#8217;s Fourth Plinth<a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/shorthand\/fourth_plinth\/\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce that artist Samson Kambalu will be one of two new commissions for Trafalgar Square\u2019s Fourth Plinth. Samson Kambalu, who has a major solo exhibition at Modern Art Oxford (22 May &#8211; 5 September 2021)&nbsp;presents the powerful new sculpture, Antelope for the commission. 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