Sentences with phrase «african photography and video»

You have made significant contributions to the study of modern and contemporary African art — and African photography and video art in particular.

The series is on view at the Walther Collection Museum, Neu - Ulm / Burlafingen in an exhibition titled, Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art (2017).

«Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from the Walther Collection» features work by 14 artists.

Michael Tsegaye's Group and solo exhibitions include: Recent Histories, Contemporary African Photography and Video Art in 2017 at the Walther Collection Museum in Germany, Ankober, Addis Fine Art, Addis Abba (2015 - 2016), Medecins Sans Frontiers, National Museum Addis Ababa (2011), For a Sustainable World, African Photography Biennal 9th Edition, (2011), Selam Arts Festival, Toronto, Canada (2010), Hotel Dystopia Room # 25/55: Al Bastakiya Art Fair, Dubai, UAE (2010) and Aksum Rediscovered: The Reinstallation of the Obelisk, The UNESCO House, Paris, France (2009).

In accentuating different perspectives and considering the infrastructures that often link them, Recent Histories provides a point of entry to engage critically with current practices, and opens up considerations about how to conceptualize the frameworks of contemporary African photography and video art.

Future Memories, an incredible series of works by Michael Tsegaye will be on view at the Walther Collection Museum in Germany in an exhibition titled, Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art.

This interview is adapted from the catalog Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art, to be published by Steidl and The Walther Collection in May 2017.

~ Rencontres de Bamako Biennale, Mali, 2nd Dec 2017 - 31st Jan 2018 ~ Prospect 4 Biennale, New Orleans, 18th Nov 2017 — 25th Feb 2018 ~ Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland, New Region of the World 8th Sept — 30th November 2017 ~ Walther Collection, Ulm, Germany Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art ~ Krannert Museum, Illinois, solo show, Did You Know We Taught Them How To Dance?

Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from The Walther Collection unites the perspectives of 14 contemporary artists of African descent, who investigate social identity, questions of belonging, and an array of sociopolitical concerns — including migration, lineage, the legacies of colonialism and Calvinism, and local custom — as well as personal experiences in Africa and the African diaspora.

In accentuating different perspectives within this generation and considering the infrastructures that often link them, Recent Histories provides a point of entry to engage critically with current practices, and opens up considerations about how to conceptualize the frameworks of contemporary African photography and video art.

Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from the Walther Collection

Friday, April 6 4:00 p.m. — Russell Lord on Looking Again: Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art (Aperture / NOMA) 4:20 p.m. — Raymond Meeks on Township (TIS) 4:40 p.m. — Valérie Belin and Julie Castellano on Valérie Belin (Damiani) 5:00 p.m. — Jared Soares and Matt Eich on Days Before / Days After (Zatara Press) 5:20 p.m. — Remi Onabanjo on Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from The Walther Collection (Steidl) 5:40 p.m. — Barry Stone on Daily, In a Nimble Sea (Silas Finch)

Interacting conceptually and aesthetically, the work in «Recent Histories» sought to deepen and expand the representation surrounding the discourse of African photography and video art, as well as dealing with the social and political tensions that occur worldwide.

«Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art from the Walther Collection,» edited by Edited by Daniela Baumann, Joshua Chuang and Oluremi C. Onabanjo (Steidl / The Walther Collection, 304 pages).

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A critical theory framework extends across his paintings, sculptures, photography, and video work, investigating legacies of and possibilities for African American intellectual and cultural life.

A multimedia artist best known for photography and video, Simpson explores race, gender, and African - American identity in her powerful work.

Berni Searle is a South African artist who is renowned for her impressive body of work that employs video, photography, and various other media, including found objects and her body to evocatively communicate trauma, loss, identity, history, agency, and hope.

The exhibition incorporated a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, and other forms of popular culture and prompts rich discussions about the contested ways that African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts.

Goldner's installations include steel sculptures, video, photography and sound combining poetry, patterns, forms and African themes that engage in social discourse.

Upcoming at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Posing Beauty in African American Culture April 27 — July 26 This exhibition examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media, including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet.

This exhibition examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media, including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet.

Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video is the first major museum retrospective devoted to the work of Ms. Weems, who is one of the most accomplished and celebrated photographers working today, and one of the most eloquent interpreters of the African American experience.

The artist, who currently lives and works in Chicago, is known for chronicling the African American experience, confronting racial stereotypes, and questioning history through comic book - style drawings, paintings, and installations, as well as collage, video, and photography.

In a relaxed atmosphere, the fair will offer a unique opportunity to enjoy contemporary African art in a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation, with a cross-section of works from across the continent.

Re — al — ized features drawings, photography, video and paintings that tackle relevant and provocative issues of African - American ethnic identity, coming from six distinctive voices.

From as early as the 1980s, photography and video art have found their place in the German Pavilion, side by side with painting, sculpture and installation: the works of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer, Katharina Sieverding and Rosemarie Trockel — all of them protagonists in the vibrant art scene at the Düsseldorfer Akademie in the late 20th century — were followed by the actions and films of Christoph Schlingensief and Romuald Karmakar, along with the documentary approaches of the Indian artist Dayanita Singh and the South African photographer Santu Mofokeng.

Candice Breitz is a South African artist who uses found video footage about popular culture to create her video and photography work.

Objects such as African pottery and Southwestern textiles are interspersed with contemporary ceramics, painting, sculpture, photography, and video by artists including Nick Cave, Michelle Grabner, Camille Henrot, Hew Locke, Vik Muniz, Toshiko Takaezu, Sara VanDerBeek, and Fred Wilson.

Through this, as well as through photography and video, Halter addresses notions of a dislocated national identity and the politics of post-colonial Zimbabwe within a broader African context.

Posing Beauty examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet.

Specializing in photography, video and performance art, some of her notable exhibitions include Body Talk: Feminism, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Six African Women Artists (2015) and Precarious Imaging: Visibility and Media Surrounding African Queerness (2014).

In 2010 he opened The Walther Collection, a non-profit foundation dedicated to researching, collecting, exhibiting, and publishing photography and video art, which has become one of the most important holdings of contemporary African and Asian photography and video art.

Enwezor's work has addressed various social themes relevant to the African continent such as apartheid, labor disputes and genocide using the mediums of paintings, photography, installation and video.

Specializing in photography, video and art in the public space, she has curated numerous exhibitions internationally and written on contemporary African art.

Posing Beauty in African American Culture Through July 27, 2014 Ticketed, VMFA members free Accompanying catalogue Posing Beauty in African American Culture examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet.

She rattled off specific stats and included her own experience — noting that «Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video,» her 2014 mid-career retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York, was the first - ever solo exhibition for an African American in the history of the museum — as an example of what is possible and the hurdles that remain.

The selection will include paintings, drawings, sculptures, wall objects, photography and video art by European and American artists, plus a selection of protagonists of African and Australian art.

While her improvised, thrift - store DIY aesthetic smacks of the populism of this year's Whitney Biennial and her global themes and global identity (she is a black South African woman and an international artist) should have made her a shoe - in for Documenta XI, Rose's videos are ultimately as much about her art practice — a fine combination of video, performance, and photography — as about any «issue» of identity or globalization.

Other notable absences include Pieter Hugo, Mikhael Subotzky, and Guy Tillim; as well as the Cameroonian self - portrait photographer Samuel Fosso, whose magisterial series African Spirits (2008), along with South African artist Tracey Rose's self - portraits from her Ciao Bella (2001) video installation, underpin as much as clarify the self - reflexive, performative turn in African photography.

Charting a wide range of ways that contemporary artists from Africa are responding to environmental conditions and their own situations to make art, Environment and Object includes sculpture, photography, painting, and video by well - known artists from Africa and contemporary African artists living abroad.

Lee uses photography, collage, and video to examine the history of black bodies in soil, particularly in relationship to slavery in U.S. history, when African - Americans worked with the land.

«The artists in Where We Are point to the complexity of voices and richness of approach among African artists today, working as they do in video, photography, painting, mixed - media, sound installation, and sculpture,» says East.

It is worth noting that the grouping of the diverse works of painting, photography, sculpture, and video shown at the fair as «African art» plays on stereotypes of eroticization that have long plagued the work made in various parts of the continent.

Forming part of the collection's ongoing projects showcasing contemporary photography and video art from Africa, the show focuses on how African photographers are engaging with revolutionary and current photographic practices to respond to ideas and understandings of African diaspora.