Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery London this is an expressive
exploration of Black popular culture at its most wildly imaginative artistically ambitious and
politically urgent. In the Black Fantastic assembles art and imagery from across the African
diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. Neither Afrofuturism nor Magic
Realism but inhabiting its own universe In the Black Fantastic brings to life a cultural
movement that conjures otherworldly visions out of the everyday Black experience - and beyond -
looking at how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining
perspectives on race gender identity and the body in the 21st century. Transcending time
space and genre to span art design fashion architecture film literature and popular culture
from African myth to future fantasies and beyond this vital timely and compelling publication
is an expressive exploration of Black popular culture at its most wildly imaginative
artistically ambitious and politically urgent.
