Rest in power, Professor Jason Arday. You showed me kindness could live in academia, opened doors most of us were never meant to walk through & proved what was possible for someone from South West London. Forever my mentor, my friend, my trailblazer. Long live my friend. 🌟

Mostly I stood still, looking in awe, realising how timeless these pieces are, how they still fit now, without alteration. Each room felt like another chapter, each piece proof that a creative language, when it is truly its own, does not date. Dim lighting, quiet, objects placed thoughtfully- it felt less like an exhibition & more like walking through thought.

What Linett has done- & is doing- is keeping the artform, holding it & passing it on to the next generation (she is an active mentor of women DJs), to speak back to the erasure that constantly shrouds us as Black women. That is not a small thing- it is radical. That is resistance in its most tender form & it is the same spirit that moves through the work I do.