The Bamako Encounters pay a powerful tribute to the spaces in between and reflect on multiplicities of being - on view until 8 February 2023.
Titled “Maa ka Maaya ka ca a yere kono—On Multiplicity, Difference, Becoming and Heritage”, this edition is an invitation to reflect collectively on these multiplicities of being and differences, to go beyond the notion to be unique and to embrace composite, layered and fragmented identities, as well as multiple, complex and non-linear understandings of space and time.
Collaboratively conceived bythe curatorial team – Akinbode Akinbiyi (artist and independent curator), Meriem Berrada (Artistic Director, MACAAL, Marrakech), Tandazani Dhlakama (Assistant Curator, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town), and Liz Ikiriko (artist and Curator of Collections and Contemporary Engagement at Art Gallery of York University, Toronto) together with Artistic Director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung – this edition of the Biennale will once again facilitate a moment of encounter for artists from the African world.
Installation shot at Memorial Modibo Keita, From the left, works by Fatoumata Diabaté, Muhammad Salah, Annie-Marie Akussah and Nene Aïssatou Diallo. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot at Memorial Modibo Keita, From the left, works by Muhammad Salah, Sofia Yala and Annie-Marie Akussah. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot at Memorial Modibo Keita, From the left, works by Adee Roberson and Fatoumata Diabaté. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot at Memorial Modibo Keita, From the left, works by Sofia Yala, Adee Roberson, and Fatoumata Diabaté. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot at Memorial Modibo Keita, From the left, works by Annie-Marie Akussah, Sofia Yala, Adee Roberson and Sofia Yala. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot at Memorial Modibo Keita, from the left, work by Muhammad Salah, Annie-Marie Akussah and Muhammad Salah.Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot, from the left, work by Sofia Yala and Annie-Marie Akussah. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot. From the left, works by Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose, Annie-Marie Akussah and Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot at the District Museum. Works by from the left, Americo Hunguana, Saïd Afifi, Uiler Costa-Santos and Americo Hunguana. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot at the District Museum. Bahia, 2020, Inkjet colour prints by Uiler Costa-Santos. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot at the District Museum. Erfoud, Maro 1983 and other works by Daoud Aoulad-Syad. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot of On the road to Cuito Cuanavale III, 2019, Jo Ractliffe. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot of These Places That Live (With)in Us, 2022 by Mallory Lowe Mpoka. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot of Untitled Series, 2021, Inkjet Colour Prints by Botembe Moseka Maite. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot of Yemaya series, 2018-2021, Inkjet colour prints by Saïd Afifi. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot at House of African Photography, works by Daoud Aoulad-Syad. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
Installation shot at House of African Photography, Héritière, 2021, Inkjet colour photographic print by Myriam Omar Awadi. Photo by Annie-Marie Akussah
INSTALLATION VIEWS
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![(clockwise) Manyaku Mashilo, Passage to Prayer (detail), 2023. Credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild Archives. Courtesy of the artist; Tatenda Chidora, Self isolation II, 2021. Ilford Gold fibre Pearl 290gsm, 102cm x 132cm. Courtesy of the artist; Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist; Glicéria Tupinambá, Manto tupinambá [Tupinambá Mantle], 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Glicéria Tupinambá; Elizabeth Catlett, African American, 2009, MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, © Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Axel Schneider.](https://contemporaryand.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bildschirmfoto-2024-12-19-um-21.08.13-320x200.png)
![(clockwise) Manyaku Mashilo, Passage to Prayer (detail), 2023. Credit: Hayden Phipps & Southern Guild Archives. Courtesy of the artist; Tatenda Chidora, Self isolation II, 2021. Ilford Gold fibre Pearl 290gsm, 102cm x 132cm. Courtesy of the artist; Anaïs Cheleux, Mas Maten, Guadeloupe, shot on digital camera, 2016. Courtesy of the artist; Glicéria Tupinambá, Manto tupinambá [Tupinambá Mantle], 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Foto: Glicéria Tupinambá; Elizabeth Catlett, African American, 2009, MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST, © Elizabeth Catlett Family Trust / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Axel Schneider.](https://contemporaryand.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bildschirmfoto-2024-12-19-um-21.08.13-480x300.png)
