The body in flight
The 14th edition of the Dakar Biennale puts up the first significant survey of Senegalese artist El Hadji Sy’s work in the city.
10 Articles by:
Serubiri Moses
Serubiri Moses is a Ugandan writer and curator based in New York, and currently Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College.
How to curate a pandemic
Three prominent curators on how they are (re-)situating their respective curatorial practices in relation to the political moment.
An indispensable figure of African photography
Homage to Santu Mofokeng, photographer of quotidian black life in South Africa.
Celebrating Binyavanga Wainaina’s queerness
Binyavanga’s fashion sensibility as well as his choices in his memoir, and his essays, will have a lasting impact after he is gone.
Bisi Silva: Time Remembered
Bisi Silva’s constant movement was a form of unlearning; in her awareness of artists and cultural production on the African continent.
Pornography and Photography
The ultimate goal of Michele Siblioni’s work is to achieve the satisfaction of the white male ego, via the camera lens and exotic depictions of black women.
The Venice Biennale and the problem of nationalism
Okwui Enwezor’s “All the World’s Futures” is a radical attempt at shifting the paradigms of biennale models to create a more democratic society of artists and exhibition spaces.
Which Art History in Africa?
As an art writer working in Africa, I have no available model to craft an entire practice of writing books on contemporary art in Uganda.
Kampala Gets an Art Biennale
The need to move the art discussion away from Darwinian interests in gorillas to the concern for new audiences for contemporary art in Africa.
Trouble in the Village
Dak’Art is the only art contemporary biennale of its scope with a mandate to include all artists of African descent.