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Barbican Centre

The venue: Barbican Centre

Nachomaans · CC BY-SA 4.0

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

Yinka Shonibare · Barbican Centre · London, United Kingdom · 13 Feb to 26 May 2024

ClosedConfirmed · check before you travelListed from the artist's researched page

This exhibition has closed

It closed on 26 May 2024. The page stays because an exhibition history is evidence: where a work was shown, and when, is part of its provenance and this archive cites it.

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  1. 16 Sep 2026 Listed from the artist page.
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