Serge Alain Nitegeka’s Into the BLACK linked abstraction and ancestral memory

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

Serge Alain Nitegeka’s 2014 exhibition at Stevenson Johannesburg brought geometric paintings, silhouetted figures and charcoal portraits into a sustained exploration of blackness. ArtThrob’s review connected the Burundian artist’s formal language with migration, absence and ancestral memory. Portraits of his grandmothers, presented alongside his own likeness as self-portraits, complicated the relationship between individual identity and family history.

Summarised from ArtThrob · Percy Mabandu. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.