Hayward Gallery
Where was The Other Story (exhibition) located from Nov 1989 to Feb 1990?
The Other Story ( exhibition ) The Other Story was an exhibition held from 29 November 1989 to 4 February 1990 at the Hayward Gallery in London . The exhibition brought together the art of Asian , African and Caribbean artists in post war Britain , as indicated in the original title . It is celebrated as a landmark initiative for reflecting on the colonial legacy of Britain and for establishing the work of overlooked artists of African , Caribbean , and Asian ancestry . Curated by artist , writer , and editor Rasheed Araeen , The Other Story was a response to the racism , inequality , and ignorance of other cultures that was pervasive in the late-Thatcher Britain in the late 1980s . The legacy of the exhibition is significant in the museum field , as many of the artists are currently part of Tates collections . The exhibition received more than 24,000 visitors and a version of the exhibition travelled to Wolverhampton Art Gallery , 10 March to 22 April 1990 ; and Manchester City Art Gallery and Cornerhouse , 5 May to 10 June 1990 . Artists included . The exhibition included works by twenty-four artists , including Ahmed Parvez , Anwar Jalal Shemza , Aubrey Williams , Avinash Chandra , Avtarjeet Dhanjal , Balraj Khanna , David Medalla , Donald Locke , Eddie Chambers , Frank Bowling , Francis Newton Souza , Gavin Jantjes , Iqbal Geoffrey , Ivan Peries , Keith Piper , Kumiko Shimizu , Lubaina Himid , Mona Hatoum , Rasheed Araeen , Ronald Moody , Saleem Arif , Sonia Boyce , Uzo Egonu , and Yuanchia Li . Exhibition concept . In the exhibition catalogue , Hayward Gallery Director Joanna Drew writes that Making an exhibition on the basis of racial origin is not something that comes easily to the art world . The exhibition was first proposed to but rejected by the Arts Council in 1978 for being untimely . Some critics argue that The Other Story was made possible thanks to the growing grassroots activism related to the British Black Arts Movement , feminist critique , and anti-racist discourses in the UK , the US , and South Africa . The selection criteria of the exhibition focused on the relationship between modernism in African , Caribbean , and Asian artists who resided in the UK for at least ten years . Therefore , the show is considered an intervention into the exclusive canon of Euro-American modernism . In his introduction in the exhibition catalogue , Rasheed Araeen asks : Can true pluralism be achieved without recovering what we have lost in the past , for whatever reasons ? Can we afford to be complacent any more ? The Other Story was divided into four thematic sections : In the Citadel of Modernism , Taking the Bull by the Horns , Confronting the System , and Recovering Cultural Metaphors . Although Araeen used Afro-Asian in the exhibition catalogue and the wall texts to refer to the participating artists , the promotional banner used a different title : The Other Story : Asian , African and Caribbean artists in post-war Britain . Cultural historian Lucy Steeds argues that this terminology disbands the solidarity and the hyphenated connectivity in Afro-Asian . Criticism . Rashid Araeen has been criticized for the gender imbalance in the exhibition . Only four of the twenty-four artists were women : Sonia Boyce , Mona Hatoum , Lubaina Himid , and Kumiko Shimizu . Araeen stated that he was not able to locate Black and Asian women artists from earlier generations . He added that several women artists refused his invitation after hesitating that the organizing principle of the exhibition could create a ghettoising context . In her exhibition review published in December 1989 , Stupa Biswas criticized the show for the lack of representation of black women artists . In response to Biswas , Araeen wrote that the question of equal representation of black women artists is related to the nature of postwar Afro-Asian immigration in the UK while calling her approach phoney feminism .