In a 2017 C& interview with Awuor Onyango, curator Jimmy Ogonga explained his approach to Kenya’s Venice Biennale pavilion, Another Country. Drawing on James Baldwin’s novel, he considered how an international exhibition could connect Kenyan artists with wider audiences and generate discussion at home. The Biennale archive confirms the pavilion’s five participating practices, including Arlene Wandera, Mwangi Hutter and Peterson Kamwathi.
Diana Sette reviews The Ecstasy of St. Kara, an exhibition of Kara Walker’s drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Developed after a period working in Rome, the works bring religious imagery into contact with histories of enslavement, racial violence and Black self-determination in the United States. Sette reads their recurring figures and scenes as an examination of martyrdom, oppressive narratives and the possibility of resisting inherited violence.