Throughout October 1998, inIVA presented the photographic series 'Diary of a Victorian Dandy' by the artist Yinka Shonibare at poster sites in London Underground stations.
The series resulted out of his performance over a period of three days as dandy at a stately home in Herefordshire. Frivolous and elegant, as we follow a-day-in-the-life of a pretentious poseur who scales the dizzy heights of the British elite, with vanity and la-di-da airs and graces, through scenes with his valet, gambling in the billiards rooms and of course, the naughty parties.
The series of five large photographs was then shown as a touring exhibition at the Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham; at the Laing Art Gallery, Higham Place in Newcastle upon Tyne and at the Towner Art Gallery and Museum at Eastbourne in 1999 / 2000.