13, August 2022 - 31, October 2022
Transforming how we understand the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans and its impact on all of us - so we can make racial justice a reality, together.
In seven cities across the UK including Leicester, and LCB Depot
The World Reimagined is a ground-breaking, UK-wide art education project to transform how we understand the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans and its impact on all of us.
The World Reimagined will see trails of large Globe sculptures in seven cities across the UK - including
Leicester - in August-October of 2022, created by artists to bring to life the reality and impact of the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans.
The Globes will be created by both established and undiscovered artists, alongside Globes created through unique collaborations that bring together communities and icons with artists. Following the three-month-long exhibition, the globes will be auctioned at Bonhams later this year, with all proceeds going to
The World Reimagined and paying the artists who have brought the journey to life.
See the
Leicester artists taking part in
The World Reimagined.
One of the Leicester trail Globes is by LCB-based artist
Marcus Dove (above); and LCB Depot will present Globes from Humberstone Academy, Charnwood Primary School and Leicester College.
Marcus says:
"My piece is finished with my usual process of gunpowder but in the form of chains that scorch the surface of this globe. The base is painted in a light-swallowing black that conveys one of the darkest times known to man.
Rising out of the darkness amongst the emancipated chains are block shapes in red, these represent the blood shed and severities.
Spaces of voided grid in the background are there to remind us that there will always be a part of people missing due to the atrocities of slavery and their ramifications.
All of this is based on a background of blues, which are the inverted colours to black skin tones because incarceration and slavery was the exact opposite to what the victims should have been experiencing; freedom."
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Find out more at
The World Reimagined website