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Musa N Nxumalo, This is how you start a party
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Africa State of Mind is at
New Art Exchange, Nottingham until 16 December 2018
From NAE website:
Africa State of Mind, curated by Ekow Eshun
with NAE, explores the work of an emergent generation of photographers from
across the African continent. 16 artists from 11 different countries
interrogate ideas of 'Africanness' through highly subjective renderings of life
and identity on the continent, along the way revealing Africa to be a
psychological space as much as a physical territory; a state of mind as much as
a physical location. The exhibiting artists are: Emmanuelle Andrianjafy, Sammy Baloji, Raphaël Barontini, Neil Beloufa,
Girma Berta, Eric Gyamfi, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Lebohang Kganye, Namsa Leuba,
Michael MacGarry, Sabelo Mlangeni, Mimi Cherono Ng'ok, Musa N Nxumalo, Ruth
Ossai, Athi Patra Ruga
and Michael Tsegaye.
The exhibition orientates around three main
themes - Inner Landscapes, Zones of Freedom and Hybrid Cities. In the show the
modern African city is documented in all its dynamism and contradiction. The
fluidity of gender and sexual identity is addressed through compelling
portraiture, and the legacy of history, from slavery and colonialism to
apartheid, becomes the source of resonant new myths and dreamscapes.
Read full text here; read article by Diane Smyth in BJP
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Emmanuelle Andrianjafy, Untitled, 2015 (From the series "Nothing’s in Vain")
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| Emmanuelle Andrianjafy, Untitled, 2015 (From the series Nothing’s in Vain) |
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Kiluanji Kia Henda, The Last Journey of the
Dictator Mussunda N’zombo Before the Great Extinction: Act I, 2017
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Sabelo Mlangeni, Oupa Kuhlahle, Wesselton
Township, 2009
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Sammy Baloji, Cielux OCPT building exterior,
municipality of Masina, 2013
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Sammy Baloji, Street view, municipalities of Masina and Kimbanseke, 2013
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Hayden Phipps, Night of the Long Knives I, 2013
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Lebohang Kganye, Ke le motle ka bulumase le bodisi II, 2013
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Michael Tsegaye, FM 1
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