From the Surrounds, We Build the Present
Founded in 2016, Forward Art Stories (FAS) is driven and strengthened by the ideas behind the diverse narratives and artistic expressions of the African continent and its diaspora. To promote new readings of the collection, FAS invited Cindy Sissokho to collaborate in its programme by curating a group exhibition exploring themes in the collection.
The exhibition explores everyday realities and moments of freedom that people generate within the environments they inhabit. Thinking from the concept of the surrounds by scholar and urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone, the exhibition focuses on what he refers to as the spaces in an ongoing process of reconstruction, preservation, fugitivity and transformation by their inhabitants, whether human or non-human.
Here, the notion of the surrounds also invokes myth as a force of fiction, imagination and ingenious refusals. These refusals take spatial and aesthetic form, enabling the re-narration of histories and the exposure of their visible and invisible infrastructures.
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am - 1 pm and 2 pm - 6 pm
Credits:
Artists: Abdoulaye Konaté, António Ole, Délio Jasse, Edson Chagas, Ernest Mancoba, Felix Shumba, Frida Orupabo, Gabriel Chaile, Grada Kilomba, Hank Willis Thomas, Hicham Benohoud, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Kiripi Katembo, Mónica de Miranda, Moshekwa Langa, Pascoal Viegas Vilhete (Sum Canarim), René Tavares, Sandra Poulson, Teresa Kutala Firmino, William Kentridge, Yinka Shonibare and Zoulikha Bouabdellah.
Curator: Cindy Sissokho
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