The first time I heard about autism was in the movie Rain Man starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. It...
We fear that which we do not know and a lack of knowledge often fuels alienation. This has been the lot of albinos
Stolen and looted artefacts from the Benin Kingdom are finding their way home. After decades of insistent cultural diplomacy...
Ameh Egwu’s subjects are clearly men as is discernible from their physiognomy but peer as close as you want you cannot make out their facial features. The obscured facial features heighten that sense of the taboo because unable to discern their features, the men seem to be hiding albeit in plain sight.
If you follow the ongoing debate around repatriation and restitution of stolen art works especially from the Bini Kingdom, one...
This is my third time at 1 -54 since it was launched in 2013 by Touria El Glaoui, as the pre-eminent international fair dedicated to providing visibility to contemporary art from Africa artists and those in the diaspora. 1-54 holds three editions every year—in London, New York and Marrakech with a pop-up fair in Paris
Most visitors to Holland, even those making a brief stop-over at Schiphol airport, almost always leave with a porcelain ceramic...
나쁜 애도/Bad Lament responds to this injustice through a queer lens on mourning. The exhibition gathers artists working in performance, video, installation, and drawing. Together, they propose grief not as ritual perfection, but as protest; fragmented, messy, necessary.
A 1987 graduate of Film as Fine Art from Central St. Martin's School of Art, Zak Ove worked in film and music, collaborating with bands such as Soul 2 Soul. Fascinated by the new direction of black music, he said he engaged often with the question of “how do I translate the screaming of hip hop music like Public Enemy into something static; how do you make a sculpture scream?”
The first time an artist and a liquor company collaborated on a bottle was in 1985. Absolut was a Swedish...
This year featured a rich mix of artists and galleries, both new to 1-54 and a lot of those making their returns. A diverse range of 160 artists amd 60 exhibitors from across Africa, Brazil and beyond. There were the conventional, the zany and the envelope pushers but what seemed clear was that every iteration of 1-54 Art fair is a referendum on contemporary African art
‘For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.’ – Elie Wiesel, holocaust survivor After the Federal Government of...
