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A Virginia exhibition traced the Kamoinge Workshop’s first two decades

ART AFRICA previewed the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition Working Together, devoted to Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop. Drawing on photographs, archives and oral histories, it explored how the New York collective built opportunities for Black photographers through shared criticism, exhibitions and publishing. The 2020 presentation brought together more than 180 photographs by fifteen early members, alongside work to make Draper’s archive available digitally.

ART AFRICA30 Jan 2020

CriticismSouthern Africa

Otobong Nkanga’s Acts at the Crossroads examines interdependence

ArtThrob’s January 2020 review of Otobong Nkanga’s Acts at the Crossroads at Zeitz MOCAA considers how her drawings, textiles, photographs and installations connect bodies, land and resource extraction. The critic reads the survey through networks of mutual influence rather than a hierarchy separating humanity from nature. Works including Social Consequences II and Taste of a Stone become starting points for questions about ecological damage, labour and cultural memory.

ArtThrob30 Jan 2020

OPENING THE JOURNAL

The living archive.

A Virginia exhibition traced the Kamoinge Workshop’s first two decades

Otobong Nkanga’s Acts at the Crossroads examines interdependence

The living archive.

A Virginia exhibition traced the Kamoinge Workshop’s first two decades

Otobong Nkanga’s Acts at the Crossroads examines interdependence

Ségou festival’s 2020 programme linked contemporary art and cultural exchange

Making Mammy examined the construction of a racist visual stereotype

Abdoulaye Konaté’s textile installation honours Malian knowledge traditions

Cape Town’s 2020 art-fair talks programme brought institutions and artists into dialogue

Abdoulaye Konaté’s new site-specific, monumental work comes to Zeitz MOCAA

Ruby Swinney’s Hold Still placed ecological unease beneath dreamlike scenes

Moshekwa Langa’s Tropic of Capricorn resisted a fixed reading

Review: Soft Architectures linked material, memory and power

Cathy Abraham’s exhibition uses fragile materials to address gender-based violence

Yinka Shonibare announced plans for artist residencies in Nigeria

A January 2020 preview traced Black representation across international exhibitions

Segun Aiyesan explores space and survival in ‘Dymentiona’

Wangechi Mutu’s bronze figures offer an alternative presence at the Met

African portrait photography connects generations at 1-54 New York

Ghana announces its first national pavilion at the Venice Biennale

William Kentridge’s processional film prompts a reflection on migration and confinement