The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Menil Collection have co-commissioned the pioneering, London-based filmmaker and artist Sir John Akomfrah (born 1957) to create an immersive multichannel video installation, which will premiere at the BMA in November 2025 and the Menil in April 2026.

Multiple perspectives of young activists during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s are brought together in this installation to raise issues relating to memory and social change. Akomfrah constructs a conversation between past and present by creating a montage of archival footage, still photography, and newly filmed materials overlaid with an immersive sound design.