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This Tate exhibition options Himid’s latest work in addition to selected highlights from her influential oeuvre, focusing in particular on her interest and training in the theatre. With vivid colors that appear within barely unsettling preparations of geometric varieties, Himid phases mise-en-scènes that mirror on diasporic imagining, constructing, and making. These qualities are evident in Six Tailors , a painting Theater by which Himid has arranged six men of African descent around a desk covered in bright turquoise blue. The fabric, scissors, and spools thread with which they work materialize the coloured and textured worlds they’re within the course of…