'Persons and Pictures: The Modernist Eye in Africa' (1995)

'Persons and Pictures: The Modernist Eye in Africa' (1995)From Ricky Burnetts essay, Coming out in the Wash: The focus of this exhibition, despite the fact that it includes work made within a span of some thirty years and that it includes artists from eight African countries, is specifically, and, I hope even, provocatively, narrow. Simply stated, our curatorial brief was predicated on something that we have characterised as the British influence. On the face of it, this is dangerous ground as it immediately

each piece pairs precision and light-hearted humour

Ello Xray Eyez

“Composer

the politics of collecting and debates about archives

beginning with a conversation between Josh Ginsburg of A4 Arts Foundation (Cape Town) and Léna Monnier of Kadist (Paris)

3 includes written and visual contributions from Akin Omotoso

A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980)

pastels and glass tints for her large-scale artworks that reflect on geological deeptime and the socio-political implications of mineral extraction

"The album was recorded in Berlin

Words present a way of making sense of what we see

having gained the viewer’s attention

and thought systems