And it includes snippets of archival film of the 1964 coup that brought about the Brazilian dictatorship against which Bo Bardi somehow created her architectural masterpieces. It is particularly fitting for these two films to be exhibited together, as both share a broad commonality in their probing, out-of-the-ordinary considerations of aspects of the Harlem Renaissance – known in the 1920s and 1930s as the New Negro Movement, after The New Negro (1925), edited by the philosopher Alain Locke – and its associated artists. Julien’s fast and loose playing with time opens up this mourning to be a doorway onward, toward the joy and beauty and dancing of resistance, and freedom.

With the latter device, Julien reminds us that the racial injustices Douglass railed against are not yet entirely behind us.

This is a stunningly designed exhibition, curated intelligently to be an active one that asks us to partake in the narrative, not to be passive bystanders to history, to great effect. It is difficult within the scope of a review like this to take on such an expansive subject, including, as was pointed out to me on Twitter by Adam Nathaniel Furman, the architect’s more controversial political allegiances.

Lucia, Julien was born in London (he now splits his time between the capital and Santa Cruz, California) and studied for his BA in Fine Art Film at Central St.Jasmine Joy James visits the exhibition and is overwhelmed in the best possible ways by the multiplicity of perspective in the films: ‘Perhaps Julian’s freedom is born out of his capacity to sit with the subjectivities of the vying identities we hold within. This interconnectedness is palpable throughout the exhibition, from the collaborators with whom Julien (a 2021 Wallpaper* Design Awards judge) has worked throughout his career to the themes that recur via his own timeline; histories and narratives are questioned in a way that informs but never feels didactic. Copious seating, sumptuous carpets, ideal viewing ratios, barcodes that let you watch again later back home: everything has been arranged for your comfort. With a combined run time of approximately three and a half hours, visitors must make sure to carve out enough time to marvel at the works and to preferably decompress with a drink to accompany the food for thought.