Get Up, Stand Up Now is a brilliant, sprawling celebration of black diasporic creativity and a touching tribute by a son to his father.
Zak Ové is the curator and his father Horace, the great film-maker, is the thread knitting the show together.
Across several themed rooms, we see Ové’s films and photographs among some of the great artists of the past 50 years. He captured countless landmark moments, with films and portraits of members of the Caribbean Artists Movement, of the writer James Baldwin and comedian Dick Gregory in conversation, of the British Black Power movement, of carnivals in Trinidad and London. And accompanying them are pivotal artists, from David Hammons, Nick Cave and Carrie Mae Weems to Ronald Moody, the Black Audio Film Collective and Lubaina Himid.
Much of the best work is recent, including the magnificent video works Rebirth is Necessary by Jenn Nkiru and Relic by Larry Achiampong and the photographs of Richard Mark Rawlins and Campbell Addy. The abundance of great work make this unmissable.
Until September 15, (020 7845 4600, somersethouse.org.uk)
