Kehinde Wiley / Prelude
We teamed up with Kehinde Wiley Studio to create an enormous 6 screen installation at the National Gallery of London. Beginning with an epic production in Norway right before the pandemic hit, we were so lucky to be able to complete this exhibition for an in person opening in 2021.
American artist Kehinde Wiley explores the artistic conventions and canons of the Western landscape tradition. Wiley’s images – as part quotation, part intervention – raise questions about power, privilege, identity, and above all highlight the absence or marginalization of Black figures within European art. Situated in the Sunley Room, at the centre of the Gallery’s collection, this free exhibition draws out the dynamic relationship between Wiley’s transcendental works and the National Gallery’s historical landscapes and seascapes by artists such as Claude, Friedrich, Turner and Vernet.
Director — Kehinde Wiley
Produced — Cousins
Cinematographer —Jasper Wolf, NSC
Composer — Niles Luther
Voice — CCH Pounder
Editor — Ana Veselic
Casting Director —Gabrielle Lawrence
Fashion Director — Yohana Lebasi
Hair Director — Jawara Wauchope
Hair Stylist — Selasie Ackuaku
Makeup — Charlotte Wold
Color — Elias Nousiopoulos
Sound Mixer — Edward Cooper
Cast
Jennifer Wright
Naynang Mayen
Lamula Anderson Birungi
Moses Abraham
Mountaga Diop
Ray Idowu Adedeji
Jammal Ibrahim
Brad Ogbonna