“We could not refer to our role in art history, because we did not play a role in that history.” One of the many remarkable quotes out of an exclusive interview with the African American artist Kerry James Marshall. “Markets are not driven by black people. The way artworks travel around the world has a lot to do with how the market functions”, is another.
An interview with Kerry James Marshall
Sandra Maunac and Mónica Santos talk in their essay about THE SAPE, The Society of a curious and flamboyant movement formed principally of youths from the city of Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo, and also some from Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The movement, whose birth dates back to the 1920s, at the height of the colonial period, is currently acquiring an unprecedented importance both in the Republic of the Congo and beyond the borders of the African continent itself, becoming an object of imitation, study and exhibition.