afro-fractions

2024

Samira Farah and Roberta Joy Rich,
Runway Journal

Okwui Enwezor is one of the most distinguished African curators of his time, if not, one of the most important curators of the 20th and 21st century, that has also been most successful in penetrating and undermining the reductive nature of the white canon construct of contemporary art, offering new modes of thinking towards plurality while challenging conformist ideas of international biennales. For their offering, Roberta and Samira have created a visual constellation of their time in the United Arab Emirates sharing their personal photographs, videos, posters, street images and linking it to the work and writings of Black African theorists, critics, musicians and artists across the diaspora within their interpretation of Okwui ideas. Being peer African arts workers, artists, educators, curators and producers, Roberta and Samira begin to contemplate their manifestations of being Black across geographies and within their Counterflow, their proximity to Okwui and the frequencies they start to constellate.

Samira Farah and Roberta Joy Rich, afro-fractions, August 2024. This work was originally published at Runway Journal in 'Conversations,' as part of the Counterflows program hosted by Arts House and UTP.

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