Exploring the practice of Dakar-based artist Aliou Diack
An artist whose work is intimately connected to nature
Having moved from his place of birth Sidi Bougou, in the Mbour region, to the heart of the city Dakar, Aliou Diack has held his relationship with nature close to his heart. In fact, it has allowed him to view the city as a result of the natural environment and continues to expand viewers’ understandings of the natural world.
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Unpacking Seher Shah’s latest solo: Notes from a City Unknown
Thinking about cities and the evolution of practice through drawing, printmaking and sculpture
Shah’s current solo unpacks the threads woven between her thematic interests while representing a transformative period for the artist.
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Jackie Karuti’s work invites audiences to stretch their imagination
Founded on ideas around knowledge production & accessibility as well as the depths of possibility enabled by radical imagination, Karuti uses the familiar to bridge access to explorations of alternative worlds.
Jackie Karuti’s work asks audiences to stretch their imagination, borrowing from and referencing the current and historical circumstances but offering avenues for configuring other worlds.
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Rele Gallery – a dynamic contemporary art space promoting African artists
With roots in Lagos and a more recent space in LA, Rele exists as a bridge from emerging artists towards global audiences.
Rele Gallery is an arts space that is determined to build the audiences and opportunities for emerging and less established artists from Africa and its diaspora.
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Travesía Cuatro gives voice to the Global South on its own terms with video series Bajo el Sol
A space of multidisciplinary engagement that taps into the variety of practice and practitioners across the Global South
With this project the gallery highlights the importance of enabling conversations across disciplines and creating a space to highlight the pathways of connection, practice-building and narrative embodiment that exists in individual and collective practices across the Global South.
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