As part of the Africa2020 Season, Angola-based independent curator Suzana Sousa and Odile Burluraux, curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, have selected artworks by sixteen women artists from various English – and Portuguese – speaking African countries or the diaspora.

The result is an insight into an African contemporary art scene rarely presented in France. The Power of My Hands tells us how artists can use their personal histories to address the social issues that govern the condition of women today. Examining a range of themes – the body, sexuality, self-representation, motherhood, beliefs – the exhibition asks how, for Black women, attitudes to privacy reveal what goes unsaid and their relationship with the world. It does this via an intermingling of the notions of memory, family, spirituality and imagination.

Exhibition participants: Stacey Gillian Abe (Uganda), Njideka Akunyili Crosby (Nigeria), Gabrielle Goliath (South Africa), Kudzanai-Violet Hwami (Zimbabwe), Keyezua (Angola), Lebohang Kganye (South Africa), Kapwani Kiwanga (Canada), Senzeni Marasela (South Africa), Grace Ndiritu (Kenya/United Kingdom), Wura-Natasha Ogunji (United States/Nigeria), Reinata Sadimba (Mozambique), Lerato Shadi (South Africa), Ana Silva (Angola), Buhlebezwe Siwani (South Africa), Billie Zangewa (Malawi), Portia Zvavahera (Zimbabwe)

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