White Cube presents Theaster Gates’s installation A libation in Uncertain Times (2024) at Unlimited, in conjunction with his major commission for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, opening in June 2026. 

The work features approximately 1,000 binbo tokkuri – traditional Japanese sake vessels produced in the Edo period (1603–1868) and marked with family crests – sourced in collaboration with potter Tani Q and now bearing the name of Gates’s production company in Japan, ‘Mon Industries’.

The installation also includes Shamisen for Malcolm X (2025), a film in which a musician reinterprets blues, prayer songs and melodies by Gates’s musical group the Black Monks on his traditional shamisen, a Japanese string instrument.