Protests and petitions against the “racist” exhibition are putting pressure on the Barbican Theatre in London to drop the artist’s work.
People are calling on the Barbican Theatre in London to drop its plans to host a "racist" exhibition which features black actors chained in shackles and in cages.
Sofie Knijff
The exhibition, titled "Exhibit B", is by South African artist Brett Bailey. Bailey says that the show is intended to "confront European notions of racial supremacy and the current plight of immigrants."
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But critics have described the exhibition as a "human zoo", a 19th-century phenomenon where white Europeans and Americans viewed people of colour in public venues.
Sofie Knijff
The planned exhibition has caused outrage in London, where a #boycottthehumanzoo campaign is putting pressure on the Barbican not to show the artist's work later this month.
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