Want to see more of me? Guardian Online blogs
March 4, 2009
The exhibition Want to see more of me? is busy challenging new audiences to think about on-screen diversity on the guardian.co.uk blog.
Gabriel Gbadamosi’s review accused the exhibition of demeaning the actors: “Ultimately, this exhibition is supposed to celebrate the achievements of black British actors” Gbadamosi writes. “Instead it successfully places the group outside the industry's mainstream, as if it's right and proper that these actors be regarded in a separate, homogenous category of their own, marginalising their talents.”
A week later Femi Fola responded: “The Oscar-nominated Sophie Okonedo seems anything but stripped of dignity in her fantastic portrait. This spurious argument strips the actors of agency and sidesteps the debate the exhibition was created to explore about diversity on our screens and the ways in which this diversity can be entrenched and made resistant to the whims of a fickle industry.”
Read both reviews here:
Gabriel Gbadamosi: Is this the best way to celebrate our black actors?www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2009/feb/23/theatre-photography
Femi Fola: What a frame-up: Want to See More of Me? got a bum rap
