ALBERTA WHITTLE “…Moving Beyond the Time of Salt"

“…Moving Beyond the Time of Salt" is the first solo exhibition in Germany presented by Sour Grass in collaboration with Temporary Gallery supporting Barbadian-Scottish artist Alberta Whittle's works. Weaving tapestries that foreground themes of liberation, anti-colonialism, care, and resistance, '…Moving Beyond the Time of Salt' features films, works on paper, installations, performance, and a social collaboration rooted in the concept of radical hospitality and collective care. Whittle's work draws on contested colonial histories and the contemporary anguish of systemic racism, violence, and grief to capture the collective imagination. Her work is an open invitation to co-creating spaces for intimacy, listening, expanded kinship, and collective healing. Barbadian-Scottish artist Alberta Whittle’s multifaceted practice is preoccupied with developing a personal response to the legacies of the Atlantic slave trade, unpicking its connections to institutional racism, white supremacy, and climate emergency in the present. Against an oppressive political background, Whittle aims to foreground hope and engage with different forms of resistance. Whittle represented Scotland at the 59th Venice Biennale and is a 2022 recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Awards for Artists. In 2020, she was awarded a Turner Bursary and the Frieze Artist Award, she was the Margaret Tait Award winner for 2018/19. Whittle is currently presenting a new solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and is also participating in the 14th Gwangju Biennale. A major solo exhibition of her career to date was on display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One), Edinburgh, throughout 2023. Sour Grass is a curatorial agency founded by Holly Bynoe and Annalee Davis in 2020. This venture seeks to work with artists and creative practitioners from the Caribbean and across its diaspora, to build relationships with museums, cultural institutions, collectors, publishers, biennales, and both private and public entities. Sour Grass is particularly interested in alternative arts pedagogy, building discursive programming, and connecting with global worldviews and mythoi, bringing to life affinities and parallels with the Caribbean. Sour Grass functions as a decolonial body and a bridge to activate cultural manifestations of seeding, cross pollination, germination, cultivation and harvest.