Through the pioneering work of Yinka Shonibare MBE, we are reminded of the colloquial saying, the past is not the past. The past haunts and crescendos in our fevered questions and ideas around identity, culture, and authenticity.
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Viviane Sassen: to the Core of Photographic Experimentation
Amsterdam-born Viviane Sassen creates images in which abstraction and performance intertwine. She primarily shoots portraits, typically featuring anonymous subjects in unidentified settings.
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Feel Between the Lines: the Minimalist Realism of Angela Amami Isiuwe’s paintings
Angela Amami Isiuwe is a painter based in Lagos. Born and raised in Abraka (Niger Delta), she attended the Auchi Art school, from which she graduated in the mid 90s. Here, she imparts the emotive significance of her minimalist paintings.
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Down to Earth: works by four Committed Artists
Henri Abraham Univers, Sanaa Gateja, Johnson Uwadinma & Armand Boua
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Danniel Toya : Robotboy de Kinshasa
Lorsque Danniel Toya redonne vie aux “matières mortes” sous formes de robots déconcertants, c’est pour libérer les tourments de Kinshasa et peupler “la Belle” de ses imaginaires les plus fascinants.
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Joy Labinjo’s Everyday People
Family portraiture has remained an emphatic compositional vernacular throughout art history.
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Mongezi Ncaphayi’s Lyrical Art
“I’m a optimist and I believe in world peace; thus my works are maps to a better tomorrow.” So says painter and printmaker Mongezi Ncaphayi.
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Cyrus Kabiru: the meaning of objects
The work of self-taught, Nairobi-based visual artist Cyrus Kabiru is imbued with benevolence. His artistic approach is dedicated entirely to objects and nature.
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Without Head/Mind: Humor and Juxtaposition in the Works of Amadou Sanogo and Mawande Ka Zenzile
Amadou Sanogo (Mali) and Mawande Ka Zenzile (South Africa) are two artists who get at the heart of bewildering, paradoxical, and absurd aspects of contemporary society.
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Darryll DeAngelo Terrell : décoder les icônes
En 1952, dans son ouvrage intitulé Peaux noires, masques blancs, Frantz Fanon soulignait l’érotisation des corps noirs, et leur ancrage dans des figures fantasmées.
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