'Naming the Money' by Lubaina Himid. An art activity on looking and seeing for Black History Month

As part of celebrating Black History Month, this week we are looking at: 'Naming the Money' by Lubaina Himid, who is the first Black woman to win the Turner prize, which she did in 2017.
'Naming the Money' is a spectacular installation made up of 100 life-size painted cut-out figures. This is the story of the slave/servant but also of the emigre and the asylum seeker. Each cut-out has a real name, each one is able to to say who they actually are but each one lives with their new name and their new unpaid occupation attempting somehow to reconcile the two. Every person in the installation is trying to tell you something, each has a voice that can be heard via the soundtrack playing in the gallery space or as text on an invoice collaged to his/her back.
In this video we will explore people who are visible and invisible in our society today and how this is influenced by race, class and financial capital. When considering Himid's work anew, we are struck by the great impact that the pandemic has had on the very people who are frequently overlooked in art: people from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities, people with chronic and terminal illnesses, and older adults.
We hope that, inspired by Himid's work, in the act of consciously looking and seeing the people who are not 'there' (those who are not represented or thought about) this will provide an impetus for change and equality, starting in the arts and rippling outwards.