Twisting, gilding and whitewashing the canvas: artist Titus Kaphar explores the omissions and the empty spaces in art history, and fills in the blanks through painting and sculpture. His latest exhibition, presented by Belgian gallery Maruani Mercier, is "The Evidence of Things Unseen" and it asks an urgent question: just why were there no Black faces in Renaissance religious art?
The artist tells us more about putting his representation of a Black Jesus in a deconsecrated church in Brussels and we discuss the amendments that artists can make to the "official" version of Western history of art.
Kaphar also discusses the arresting artwork he provided for a Time Magazine cover about the protests in the wake of George Floyd's killing, and how he portrays the loss and grief of Black mothers.
