Donald Locke
in ‘After the End. Cartographies for Another Time’, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
25 January – 1 September 2025

Donald Locke, Village Square, 1974, wood, vinyl, ceramic, stainless steel33 x 36.5 x 22.7 cm © Estate of Donald Locke; photo: Michael Brzezinski
Donald Locke is included in a major group exhibition, ‘After the End. Cartographies for Another Time’, at Centre Pompidou-Metz. Bringing together the work of 40 international artists, the exhibition, curated by Manuel Borja-Villel, seeks to question the Western narrative rooted in a colonial system and proposes instead narratives which are both new and ancestral, popular and modern. Highlighting the importance of communities, the exhibition is organised around artists who deal with the diaspora and who question the limits of modernity’s intelligibility in order to imagine other worlds beyond the end of time, beyond our own time.