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Back to the 90s: Tate exhibition to explore decade’s art and fashion
Show curated by Edward Enninful will highlight era’s ‘do it yourself’ attitude and shift focus away from Cool Britannia
TL;DR
- Tate Britain will host 'The 90s: Art and Fashion' exhibition, curated by Edward Enninful.
- The exhibition features works from nearly 70 artists, photographers, and designers, including Steve McQueen, Chris Ofili, Alexander McQueen, and Damien Hirst.
- It highlights emerging talent and challenges the 'Cool Britannia' narrative by showcasing artists who focused on excluded groups.
- Key works include Steve McQueen's film 'Bear,' Chris Ofili's painting 'No Woman, No Cry,' and photography defining the 'anti-fashion' grunge style.
- The exhibition explores the decade's 'do it yourself' attitude, youthful energy, conceptual movements, and designers who merged art and fashion.
- It concludes with artists addressing Britain's past and future, diversity, representation, style, class, and national mythology.
- Enninful describes the 90s as a 'moment of transition' characterized by raw energy, a refusal of hierarchy, and the emergence of new voices and diversity.
- The exhibition aims to encourage a reconsideration of the 1990s as a period whose conditions and questions continue to unfold.