In the Black Fantastic | Lina Iris Viktor | Artist Interview | Hayward Gallery HD

‘Maps are very political, and historically significant in terms of how we make sense of the world… but maps are also very misleading.’ Born in 1986, Viktor is a British-Liberian visual artist based in New York. Working in paint, sculpture, performance, installation and photography, she draws on artistic traditions and visual influences from African symbolism, classical mythology and astronomy, and European portraiture. In this video Viktor talks us through some of her works which feature in the Hayward Gallery exhibition, In the Black Fantastic. These include the 2018 series ’A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred’, and in particular the work ‘Eleventh’, which features an American Colonization Society map of tribal areas in what is now Liberia. And also a pair of totemic sculptural creations, each of them made from Volcanic rock. The artist also explores the notion of ‘the Black Fantastic’, and the way in which the exhibition has connected a group of individual artists. Subscribe for the latest videos from Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room + more: http://bit.ly/SBCsubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/southbankcentre on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/southbankcentre and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/southbankcentre