Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art 7
Akinbode Akinbiyi’s Photographs Put Worlds in Relation: Being, Seeing, Wandering at the Berlinische Galerie
The exhibition "Being, Seeing, Wandering" at the Berlinische Galerie showcases the work of Nigerian-British photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi, highlighting over 50…
28 Sep 2024
Dakar’s Vibrant Art Biennale: Beyond Exhibition as Display
Exhibitions must invite the audience to partake in an experience wherein they become co-sojourners on the road conjured by the…
15 Jun 2022
In Search of The Collective
In beginning this reflection about the collective, I have, ringing at the back of my head, an Igbo saying: Igwe…
29 Feb 2020
Seeing in the Eye: On Photography and the Gaze
“The danger of identifying with a stranger is the possibility of becoming a stranger. To lose one’s racialized rank is…
7 Feb 2019
Poetics of Location: Beyond “Africa Focus” of the Paris Art Fair 2017
Version fraiçaise traduite par Janine Gaelle In the train from Paris to Berlin, I reflected on the events of the previous…
18 Apr 2017
On Permanently Temporary Lives: Reflections on Somolu/Bariga – Lagos
In the first quarter of 2016, I made an off-handed decision to find some semblance of coordination in the otherwise…
1 Jan 2017
Africa: A new game of “Scrabble”
We are in Amsterdam. We have been invited in the context of the 5th edition of the Unseen Photo Fair/Festival…
24 Oct 2016