The scholar Paul Gilroy argued that the Atlantic world has been deeply shaped by slavery and the slave trade. The idea that there exists a culture which is African, American, Caribbean, and British, all at once, has generated the rich and boundless space that is Black Atlantic thinking. 💭

In part two of our #BlackAtlantic series, culture writer and curator @ekoweshun considers identity and nationhood through the work of Ellen Gallagher, Lubaina Himid, John Akomfrah, Chris Ofili and Fred Wilson. 🖌️

This film has been created as part of the @terraamericanart Series: New Perspectives.