“So, far from contradicting, diminishing, or diverting our revolutionary feeling for life, surrealism shored it up. It nourished in us an impatient strength, endlessly sustaining this massive army of negations.

And then I think also to tomorrow.”

— Suzanne Césaire

Rockbund Art Museum presents The Great Camouflage, an exhibition brings together sixteen contemporary artists and groups working across film, video, painting, and textiles, alongside archival and research-based practices, to explore the material and aesthetic circulations of transnational Black radical thought and the limits of revolutionary politics. Drawing on Suzanne Césaire’s call to sustain an “army of negations,” the exhibition situates contemporary artistic practice within the afterlives of revolutionary movements.