THE STORY OF BLACK

As a colour, black is a single hue. It comes in no other shades. It is pure darkness, absorber of all light. But despite its commonl y accepted role as one half of a pair (black and white, dark and light), in symbolic terms black envelops the entire spectrum of mea ning. The Story of Black explores the ambiguous relationship the world's cultures have had with this often self-contradictory colour , examining how black has been used as a tool and a metaphor in a multitude of startling ways.