Black Earth Rising

Through the brilliance of its curator, British writer Ekow Eshun, the works are organized to emphasize intertwined concepts such as slavery and the environmental consequences of colonialism. Black Earth Rising takes some of contemporary art’s most interesting and exciting voices and puts them in compelling conversation with each other.– “BookPage (starred review)” (7/1/2025 12:00:00 AM)Black Earth Rising examines how the climate crisis and colonialism are intimately connected, through the lens of works by contemporary African diasporic, Latin American, and Native American artists.– “Art & Object”

Ekow Eshun is a writer, curator, journalist and broadcaster based in London, whose writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian and Vogue. Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, from 2005 to 2010, and a frequent contributor to BBC radio and television programmes, his previous books include The Strangers: Five Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them, published in 2024, and In the Black Fantastic, published in 2022.