Najaax Harun does not offer easy reflections. She offers portals. Her work is an invitation to stare into the mirror until it dissolves, until the frozen self, heart finally open, thaws and steps through.
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Photographer Vladim Vilain
His work joins a lineage of Afro-surrealist artists who re-explore the photograph as a space of possibility, resistance and speculation. By doing so, he reminds his audience that folklore and myth are not just elements of the past but also living forces that shape identities and envision futures.
Yannis Davy Guibinga about the photoworks of Vladim Vilain.
Between Distance and Desire
The exhibition Between Distance and Desire rethinks traditional African art within today’s global political and cultural context.
Theresa Musoke
By looking at these species, you’re not just looking at a representation of an East African landscape but a metaphor for abstract emotions that Musoke hints at in her visceral vicissitudes of a pack of dogs violently tearing apart a prey.
Wambui Wa Mwangi on the work of the Ugandan artist Theresa Musoke, who lives in Kenya.
Dancing with the trees, 1990s, mixed media on canvas
Kirubel Melke
Kirubel develops an artistic approach where texture becomes active memory, a vivid trace of what shapes and surrounds us