La singularité de la pratique de Nobel Koty, se traduit par un besoin permanent de quête d’identité. Si l’intériorisation occupe une place de choix dans sa démarche, le jeune peintre reste cependant très attentif au monde qui l’entoure ;…
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J’ai rêvé de Tata M’Barka…
Rencontre avec l’artiste marocaine Khadija Tnana à l’occasion de sa participation à la cinquième édition de la Biennale internationale de Casablanca (BIC) de 2022-2023 – “Les mots créent les images”. Née en 1945 à Tétouan, Khadija Tnana est une artiste…
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The Ethic of Love by Sola Olulode
Sola Olulode seems compelled to create. She is prolific, working quickly through different ideas and techniques with exuberance. Her exhibition; “Could You Be Love” at Sapar Contemporary in New York, coalesces paintings and works on paper that depict scenes of…
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Sènami Donoumassou : Ce qui se perd lorsque l’on quitte l’oralité pour l’écriture
Trois ans après sa première exposition monographique, l’artiste visuelle Sènami Donoumassou nous revient avec une nouvelle réflexion autour de la mémoire des langues. Entre photogrammes, installations protéiformes et dessins, sa pratique artistique expérimente l’envergure des potentialités de la lumière. A…
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Samallie Kiyingi: The Universal Language of Contemporary Art
Samallie Kiyingi is a lawyer by training and an art collector by passion. Her collection focuses on elevating the work of African artists, which she achieves not only through her support for institutions but by directly supporting the artists themselves.…
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ART X Lagos and the African Digital Revolution
Over the past 18 months of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the art world has engaged widely with digital platforms in ways that have created more visibility for artists, art professionals, institutions, and even a boom in innovative online exhibitions and…
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Lulama Wolf: Undulating curves that create lithe bodies in space
“Not only did bodies tend to indicate a world beyond themselves, but this movement beyond their own boundaries, a movement of boundary itself, appeared to be quite central to what bodies are.*” – Judith Butler Lulama Wolf’s practice is formulated…
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Mous Lamrabat: Photographs from the Middle of Everywhere
We are no strangers to the sometimes-nameless photographs that surge the internet, those images that invite collective awe and depart from the exclusive realms of fine art to make their way to the very public domains of the world wide…
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Skoto Gallery: The Dynamics of Success
Born in Ahoada, River State, Nigeria, Skoto Aghahowa is the founder of New York-based Skoto Gallery. Since 1992, he and his wife, Alix du Serech, have been working consistently to promote the work of artists from Africa, while also opening…
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Alexis Peskine: Collective Ambition
Building on his own heritage and personal experiences, Alexis Peskine’s relief and multimedia work addresses the complexity of themes impacting people from Africa and its diasporas. His signature artworks, large-scale mixed media ‘portraits’ known as Power Figures and Fire Figures, are rendered…
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