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Edward Enninful discusses his curation of a 1990s-themed exhibition at Tate Britain that opened recently. The exhibit includes over 200 works across art, photography, film, and fashion, showcasing both well-known artists like Damien Hirst and lesser-known figures such as Sonia Boyce and Steve McQueen. Enninful highlights the decade's political context and cultural revolution, emphasizing themes of inclusivity and social change rather than a simple celebration of its iconic moments.
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Edward Enninful, the fashion director of i-D magazine, introduces an upcoming 1990s-themed exhibition at Tate Britain. The exhibition, curated with assistance from Tate Britain's team, features over 200 works across art, photography, film, and fashion. Enninful highlights that the show is not merely a showcase of the well-known Young British Artists (YBAs) like Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, and Sarah Lucas, but also includes lesser-known artists such as Sonia Boyce, Maud Sulter, and Steve McQueen. Enninful emphasizes that this decade was marked by significant contributions from diverse figures who addressed themes of identity, race, and Britishness through their work, alongside the cultural upheaval of Cool Britannia and the AIDS crisis response.
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It was very political. We were living through HIV and Aids and asking who was allowed into certain rooms and who wasn’t.
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I understood very clearly that many of the spaces I wanted to enter had not been built with people like me in mind and a generation of outsiders had to find their way in and start changing those spaces from within.
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Many of the people featured were young, working-class or simply people who had to use art as their currency. That, more than nostalgia, is what I wanted this exhibition and this issue to be about.
left highlights structural disadvantages faced by marginalized groups
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I was having lunch with Maria Balshaw, an old friend and the former director of Tate, and told her we should do something together one day.
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She said she had the perfect idea: the 1990s.
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I was there and part of the whole scene, becoming fashion director of i-D in 1991, when I was 18, and within two seconds I had said yes.
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I knew I wanted to tell the story through my eyes and to look back in order to look forward.
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The exhibition, put together with the help of the fantastic team at Tate Britain, opens today, bringing together more than 200 works across art, photography, film and fashion.
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Of course Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas and others from that extraordinary wave are here, but it was just as important to give space to artists such as Sonia Boyce, Maud Sulter, Steve McQueen and many others making work with the same urgency but without always receiving the same institutional attention.
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I grew up in nightclubs and so did so many of the photographers, designers, artists and editors whose outputs appear in the exhibition and this issue.
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But it wasn’t all CDs and going to parties.
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We were living through HIV and Aids and asking who was allowed into certain rooms and who wasn’t.
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As a young black man working in fashion, I understood very clearly that many of the spaces I wanted to enter had not been built with people like me in mind and a generation of outsiders had to find their way in and start changing those spaces from within.
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You can see all of that in the work: Corinne Day and Juergen Teller replacing polish with something rawer and more intimate; Alexander McQueen and Hussein Chalayan breaking apart ideas of what fashion could be; Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare confronting questions of race, identity and Britishness; Hamad Butt responding to the Aids crisis.
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All of this was constantly colliding.
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I wanted to capture that same feeling in this special issue of The London Standard — and many of those who were there with me have contributed.
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Simon Mills looks at the political and social breakthroughs that changed Britain for ever, Paul Flynn remembers what it meant to be gay in the 1990s and Teller looks back at his extraordinary pink-haired photograph of Kate Moss.
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We also continue to look at the now, as Maddy Mussen asks why Gen Z has become so obsessed with New Labour.
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I would love for you to head down to Millbank and see the exhibition for yourselves.
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Many of the people featured were young, working-class or simply people who had to use art as their currency.
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That, more than nostalgia, is what I wanted this exhibition and this issue to be about.
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I hope you enjoy.
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