A continent. A diaspora.
A conversation.
OPENING THE JOURNAL
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Selassie Atadika brings cocoa farming into the gallery through portraits, field recordings, agricultural materials and a brass pod cast by Emmanuel Fosu. In an interview about Commodity / Couture at 1-54 London, she explains how the installation connects craft and agricultural knowledge while questioning whose labour receives recognition and economic value.
Nancy Dantas discusses West Wind, an exhibition bringing African modernists into conversation across national borders. Works by artists including Kofi Antubam, Gerard Sekoto, Bertina Lopes and Baya frame an exploration of independence, migration and cultural exchange. Her interview emphasises archival research and the relationships that complicate a single, linear account of African art history.
Léon Radegonde discusses a practice built around hessian, wood, rust and deliberately aged materials in an interview about Restan Lepase at 1-54 London. Presented by DēpART, the project connects his work with writing, research and sound, offering a view of Seychelles beyond tourism imagery and reflecting on the country’s developing contemporary-art institutions.