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A Black female artist navigates identity and history through dance in a grand London mansion, confronting cultural legacy.
Presenting Performance art film, 'Nude Me/Under the Skin: A Resurrection of Black Women's Visibility' is a collaboration between textile and performance artist Enam Gbewonyo and Director Freddie Leyden. The film unfolds at Two Temple Place - an opulent neo-Gothic mansion in London (UK). Inspired by the architecture, Freddie and Enam created a film in conversation with those surroundings. The film like Enam's wider work explores the nuances of the Global North's empirical history and its very direct effects on the Black British diaspora, in particular the women of this community. These themes are explored through the language of dance using ballet inspired movement and agbadza - a traditional Ewe (Ghana) dance of Enam's heritage. The film is a conversation between the small frame of this black female body and an expansiveness of architecture - masonry and carpentry. The film also provides a moment of healing for a community emerging from a period of continuous emotional triggers and physical harm.
