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NewsNorth Africa

Rafik Greiss explores waiting and memory through film and photography

Egyptian artist Rafik Greiss’s The City and the City at Berlin’s KW Institute for Contemporary Art combines a newly commissioned film with black-and-white photographs. ART AFRICA describes figures waiting in desert landscapes, accompanied by a score from musician 7038634357. Curated by Emma Enderby and Liberty Adrien, the exhibition considers anticipation, perception and the instability of memory through images that resist a fixed historical or geographical reading.

ART AFRICA19 Oct 2026

NewsDiaspora

Emily Alice Mitchell traces Caribbean inheritance through family archives

Africans Column explored Emily Alice Mitchell’s presentation with DēpART at FUZE Caribbean Art Fair in Nassau. Working across photography, collage and sculpture, the British-Caribbean artist brought family archives into dialogue with migration, memory and belonging. The feature examined how materials including wood, steel, beads and shells carry personal histories, and how sculptural gates incorporating Sankofa connect her Trinidadian family context with wider African diasporic traditions.

Africans Column18 Oct 2026

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The living archive.

Rafik Greiss explores waiting and memory through film and photography

Emily Alice Mitchell traces Caribbean inheritance through family archives

The living archive.

Rafik Greiss explores waiting and memory through film and photography

Emily Alice Mitchell traces Caribbean inheritance through family archives

G.A.S. links collections and publishing through Biblio-Graph

Raphaëlla Anakasala plans women’s art workshop in Kinshasa

John Okoye’s paintings examine the pressures of boyhood

Yinka Ilori brought Chairman to an Islington community centre

Unathi Mkonto wins Fiorucci prize with a London commission to follow

Lubumbashi Biennale opens a conversation about extraction and memory

Massive King Ramses II Statues Unearthed in Egypt

Danh Vo and Sandra Mujinga Selected for Met Museum Commissions

WPA Murals at Harlem Hospital Restored to Their Original Glory

Rethinking who preserves and circulates African cinema

Jazmine Hayes brings affirmations of care to Brownsville public art

Zeitz MOCAA presents Turning Towards the Sun

Dakar roundtable explores Bocar Niang’s Musée griot.tes

Blessing Bulus discusses sculpture, film and remembrance at CCA Lagos

African artists feature in Rubaiya Qatar’s inaugural programme

Oyewole Lawal explores memory through photography and mirrors