Interview

Tarek Lakhrissi: Staging Melancholy, Finding Inspiration in Other People’s Words

In Conversation

Tarek Lakhrissi: Staging Melancholy, Finding Inspiration in Other People’s Words

Tarek Lakhrissi’s solo show Perfume of Traitors opened at VITRINE gallery in London…

Najah Zarbout, Roots (détail) 90x70, 2021. Courtesy the artist.

Africa2020 Season

Najah Zarbout: Being at a Crossroads

For her exhibition “Thanaya: entre plis et chemins” at Africa2020 Season Tunisian artist…

Abdelkader Damani: Seeking Forms of Freedom

Africa2020 Season

Abdelkader Damani: Seeking Forms of Freedom

As the subject of Abdelkader Damani’s Africa 2020 exhibition, Algiers is the city…

N’Goné Fall: More than a Season

Africa2020 Season

N’Goné Fall: More than a Season

The large-scale French event Africa2020 hasn’t had an easy start. Curator N'Goné Fall…

Minia Biabiany, still from the video Toli Toli, 10min, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

In Conversation

Minia Biabiany: Choreography of the Archipelago

In her work, artist Minia Biabiany from the French-speaking Caribbean island of Guadeloupe,…

Christopher Ulutupu, Treadmill, 2021. Video Still. Courtesy the artist.

Over the Radar

Christopher Ulutupu: Fantasy, Desire, and Indigeneity

Despite having had limited cultural exchange, the continents of Africa and Oceania are…

Massinissa Selmani, Untitled # 7, 2021 (Alterables series). Photocopy, graphite and coloured pencil on paper and tracing paper, 15,5 x 19,8 cm. © ADAGP Paris - Courtesy Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris

In Conversation

Massinissa Selmani: Creating Work Between Dualisms

Our author Elisa Pierandrei talked to Algerian artsist Massinissa Selmani about his enigmatic…

View of the the New Entrance. Photo: 32°East | Ugandan Arts Trust

In Conversation

Uganda’s New Arts Center is One Step Closer to Completion

With its fundraising campaign ongoing, 32º East | Ugandan Arts Trust is nearing…

ruby onyinyechi amanze, astral planes [only kin keeps us warm], 2020, Ink, graphite, colored pencils, photo transfers on four sheets of paper. Courtesy Mariane Ibrahim

In Conversation

ruby onyinyechi amanze: Drawing the Elements, Choreographing Freedom

ruby onyinyechi amanze crafts intricate collaged drawings that look like moments of choreographed…

Baule Women, 1928, Unknown, Cote d’Ivoire. Courtesy of The McKinley Collection and The African Lookbook

In Conversation

Catherine E. McKinley: ‘I have gathered these images, not just for me, but for you’

Ethel-Ruth Tawe talks to the author of The African Lookbook: A Visual History…

Euridice Kala, detail of I, the Archive, Villa Vassilieff, Paris, 2020. Photo by Aurélien Mole

In Conversation

Euridice Kala: Rethinking the Archive

The Mozambican artist spoke to Sean O’Toole about her personal approaches to archives,…

Pintei o Éden de Preto, 2020. Courtesy of the David Zwirner Gallery

In Conversation with Maxwell Alexandre

“There is a Future Changing the Imagination of Subalterity”

The boy who was born in 1990 stepped into his inline “blades” for…


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