Artist Kehinde Wiley in conversation

Celebrated American painter Kehinde Wiley is interviewed by cultural commentator Ekow Eshun on the eve of Wiley’s new London solo show, In Search for the Miraculous, which includes the short film Narrenschiff. Wiley’s work uses the rhetoric of the classical portraitist in his representation of black people.

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