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Entering Isaac Julien’s forty-year career survey What Freedom Is To Me you run an edifying gauntlet, a hallway offering a peremptory review of the artist’s vintage and seminal films: Territories (1984), This is Not An AIDS Advertisement (1987), Who Killed Colin Roach? (1983), and Lost Boundaries (2003). These works, created with the Sankofa Film and Video Collective, present the roots and fundamental toolkit of Julien’s approach to filmmaking and social justice.

SIR ISAAC JULIEN, one of the most innovative artists and filmmakers of our time, and is the subject of the UK’s first ever survey exhibition at Tate Britain.

The full title of the article by Precious Adesina (Artnet) is “‘It’s About Bringing Those Absences to Life:’ Isaac Julien on Using the Gaps in Historical Archives As Springboards for Reinvention.” British artist Isaac Julien, whose parents hail from St. Lucia, has his first major UK retrospective on view through August 20, 2023—“Isaac Julien: What…

It was made at the time of the advent of video art. i was encapsulating video art technologies, or techniques, into the telling of the story of the family's campaign to get a public inquiry into the death of their son, colin roach. you know, in a way, i think it was made with that in mind. and i think, in a way, for me it's very much about also trying to make work that somehow is against the way that the dominant media tells stories about these questions. and so, i guess there's a certain poetry within that. i see. but how far do you see yourself as an artist as well as an activist? i mean, th...

The British artist's first major U.K. retrospective is on view at Tate Britain through August 20.