While the fair 1-54 gave a stage to contemporary African art, works by other black artists were on display in several other locations in London.
Author: Robbert Roos
The Diaspora Pavilion in Venice
The topics raised in the Diaspora Pavilion are deeply serious and function within a discourse that has been going on for the past decades, in which the former ‘other’ is claiming an equal and independent position within today’s world, according to their own narratives, not the ones put forward by the former oppressor.