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Tate Britain Exhibition

Tate Britain Commission Alvaro Barrington: Grace

29 May 2024 – 26 January 2025

Alvaro Barrington, Grace 2024 © Tate

Alvaro Barrington's homage to the women who shaped him

Be transported to the evocative, vibrant world of artist Alvaro Barrington in a major new installation at Tate Britain.

Barrington's personal exploration of identity and belonging is a journey in three parts honouring his grandmother, sister and mother.

He draws from personal memories across time and place, from his grandmother's Caribbean home where a thunderstorm hammers on the corrugated tin roof, to the exhilarating energy of Carnival. Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries are transformed into a space alive with sound, colour and texture.

This is Barrington’s poignant celebration of the people and places that make us feel we belong.

'GRACE is the constant reimagining of Black culture and aspirational attitude under foreign conditions. GRACE here explores how my grandmother, my mother, and my sister in the British Caribbean community showed up gracefully.'

- Alvaro Barrington

Curated by Dominique Heyse-Moore, Senior Curator Contemporary British Art, Hannah Marsh, Assistant Curator, Contemporary British Art, Sade Sarumi, Curatorial Assistant and Chloe Hodge, Project Curator and Manager, Commissions

Alvaro Barrington, Grace 2024 © Tate

Alvaro Barrington, Grace 2024 © Tate

Alvaro Barrington, Grace 2024 © Tate

Alvaro Barrington, Grace 2024 © Tate

Alvaro Barrington, Grace 2024 © Tate

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Dates

29 May 2024 – 26 January 2025

Supported by

THE BUKHMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION

With additional support from

The Tate Britain Commission: Alvaro Barrington Supporters Circle

Henrik Kielland, Hartfield Foundation

Tate Americas Foundation

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a lively, open experience, and one that acknowledges the space it occupies

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a space of joy and togetherness, filled with love and critical anger

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