テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「Today, on #NationalComingOutDay, we've invited our Tate Guides to look at artworks through a queer lens. First up is Rosalind responding to Lubaina Himid's 'Between the Two my Heart is Balanced' 1991, which is currently on display at @TateStIves. 💛 'The first thing that strikes me about this picture is the bright, vivid, saturated colours and patterns, then I notice the undeniable intimacy between the two women. And I, the viewer, am sitting in this boat with them. Is it me whose heart is balanced between them or those multicoloured objects? I feel it is me. I like these women. In their hands are little blue objects which they are throwing into the sea. Lubaina Himid has said that these are maps between them. She has described the painting as "a musing on what would happen if Black women got together and started to try to destroy maps and charts – to undo what has been done". So we are in uncharted seas. The horizon is barely visible, and the sea is a mix of turquoise, green and white in huge brush strokes. It is a joyous picture, it is about Black women taking control of their lives. Lubaina Himid was born on Zanzibar, Tanzania in 1954, and moved to London with her mother at 4 months old. Perhaps this, too, is her journey. Over the last 30 years, Lubaina Himid has painted pictures of Black women together, often in pairs, and doing things that she says are both complex and ordinary. She paints for an audience of other Black women so that "we can see ourselves" because in Western Art History "there was only one story and... the Black woman never spoke". Most of her work, she claims, is designed to open up a conversation. So let’s all have that conversation now.'」10月11日 20時12分