Alvaro Barrington’s Grace, installed in Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries, is a meditation of Black culture and identity communicated through his own experiences and memories growing up in ex-British colony Grenada and New York City.
Barrington has spoken in the past about his north stars and this exhibition, which dominates the enormous space it inhabits, is built around three figures from his life. His grandmother Frederica, his close-friend or sister Samantha and his mother Emelda. Grace is also inspired by the hymn Amazing Grace, a piece of music that sits at the heart of Western Black culture.
