Lubaina Himid has spent five decades making art that subverts the monument, granting the dignity of depiction to those otherwise sidelined from the historical record. A vanguard of the Black Arts Movement in the 1980s, Himid is among Great Britain’s most celebrated artists and its 2026 representative to the Venice Biennale. In Low Key Shrines, she presents a new body of work that examines acts of commemoration, reinventing the public landmarks and domestic altars built to honor the dead.