Tate Britain
2007

Objectif were commissioned to design a display at Tate Britain, exploring William Blake’s role in the political process that lead to the abolition of slave trade in Britain in 1807. A complex intertwined narrative involving many characters around the London publisher Joseph Johnson, the politician William Wilberforce and the writer Mary Wollstonecraft had to be explained to the public, paired with a very small amount of actual original exhibits.
The interpretive text has been carefully balanced with artworks along three walls of the space. Centrepiece of the display was a bespoke 9 metre long bench facing the fouth wall, were visitors could sit and read a timeline of slave trading, as well as a number of facsimile excerpts of key 18th century publications on slavery, which were reproduced in a number of hardback books.

With Oliver Klimpel, Silke Klinnert
Furniture by Barnaby Tuke