Living Just Enough

Goodman Gallery in London presents the group show Living Just Enough, an exhibition which seeks to acknowledge and contextualise the current global reckoning with white supremacy and structural racism led by the Black Lives Matter movement.

The exhibition takes its title from Stevie Wonder’s 1974 hit “Living for the City”. The song tells the story of a young Black man who moves to New York from Mississippi and his experiences of hardships born of systemic racism. These difficulties reflect challenges faced by black people around the world, which continue unabated to this day.

Living Just Enough features work by artists of varying generations (Tabita Rezaire / Nolan Oswald Dennis / Hank Willis Thomas / Kiluanji Kia Henda / Kudzanai Chiurai / Grada Kilomba) who respond to these conditions. The  practices of each artist intersect with activism which oppose gender based violence, homophobia, transphobia and the erasure of the culture of indigenous peoples.

A donation of 10% of each sale from this exhibition will be made to two existing entities who are foregrounding Black lives:

Johannesburg’s Witkoppen Clinic, a healthcare facility providing essential services to impoverished, largely Black, communities on the margins of the city.

The second donation source is the Black Lives Matter movement  who continue to do important work in breaking down structural racism which oppresses Black people in the US and globally.