“In the Black Fantastic will be the first exhibition to highlight this very significant and still under-acknowledged artistic territory that extends across the field of visual art to recent trends in literature, film, television, and music”.
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Sheila Nakitende
Having an increased number of females working in the contemporary art scene is great. For the curators particularly, they have really played a key role in encouraging and promoting female artists.
A statement of the Ugandan artist Sheila Nakitende in conversation with Claire Nalukenge
Cost of Oxygen, 2022, 111.5cm-x-91.5cm- Bark cloth paper raffia. Photograph by-Martin Kharumwa. Image courtesy of Borderlands Art
Fazil On Yu
You know that we don’t have so many platforms for contemporary art here, the huge exhibitions, biennales or festivals. The first time I went to the Kampala Biennale in 2016, I saw highly profiled artists whose work was being exhibited. And their work was exceptional, out of the norm, very experimental. I did my research on these artists and they were big shots. So, I thought I needed to be affiliated to such a platform.
Matt Kayem interviews the Ugandan artist/dancer Fazil On Yu
Xavier Robles de Medina
Xavier Robles de Medina translates reality into magic with influences from gothic and carefully chosen ‘material’.
Miguel E. Keerveld on the work of the Surinames artist Xavier Robles de Medina.
The Role of Sculpture in Caribbean Traditions
I would describe the Carnival Spirit as aiming for a ‘higher state’ while still on the ground. It may have irreverence and parody but it is a chance to be another kind of person. It is freedom and very spiritual – it illustrates as a chance to be ‘free’, to drink, dance on the street and to be with beautiful people.