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Frida Orupabo, a Nigerian-Norwegian collage artist, presents a series of digital and physical collages assembled with paper pins, exposing different layers as if to almost implore the viewer to reflect on what they themselves are made of. Paper is not Orupabo’s only material. Her Instagram (@nemiepeba) manifests itself as a personal college, combining stills, text, sound and video loops. More than 2000 posts vary among fragments from her private life in Norway, the cultural and political history of Nigeria, and images of book covers or cartoons. Image: “Untitled” (2018), collage with paper pins mounted on aluminum (📸 by Carl Henrik Tillberg

Delphine Desane @DelphineDesaneStudio featuring @AssaBaradjiofficial in @Gucci a special issue by Vogue Italia

#Repost @delphinedesanestudio ・・・ @vogueitalia x @dior January 2020 -... Acrylic on Arches Paper 56 x 76 cm
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#Repost @atelierdaibi_isholaakpo ・・・ Trace d’une reine I
Projet AGBARA WOMEN ... 2020
Collage et couture sur papiers d’archives, fils de coton
#archivecollective #mémoire #past_present_future #sewing_sticking #foundation #curators #gallery #collection #museum #artwork #fondationzinsou
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#Repost @ekoweshun ・・・ Photomontage by Vincent Michéa whose work draws reference from the style, music and pop culture of post-independence Dakar, Senegal

‘Little is Enough For Those in Love’, by Cassi NAMODA @cas_amandaa The artist’s first European solo exhibition showing at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery @pippyhouldsworthgallery Taking its title from an East African proverb, the exhibition features new paintings that explore life and love in the city of Maputo in Mozambique, the artist’s birthplace and home for several years #CassiNamoda #Exhibition #PippyHouldsworthGallery

#Repost @delphinedesanestudio ・・・ ❣️ Another one from my Special @dior story for @vogueitalia . Acrylic on Arches paper... 56 x 76 cm
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‘Nuit de Noël’ (Happy Club), taken on Christmas Eve on a dance floor in Mali in 1963 by Malick Sidibè #MerryChristmas #MalickSidibe #NuitDeNoel #HappyClub #Mali

Étude de style (2017 #ShapesandColorsStudies "les offrandes" by Maty Biayenda @bbiayenda
Style study (2017 #ShapesandColorsStudies "offerings" by Maty Kombo @bbiayendaTranslated

#NjidekaAkunyiliCrosby @njidekaakunyilicrosby is featured in the inaugural TIME 100 Next
The first-ever TIME 100 Next, a new expansion of the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world, highlights 100 rising stars who are shaping the future of art, business, entertainment, sports, politics, health, science, activism, and more
The full list and related tributes appear in the 25 November 2019 issue of TIME available on newsstands and at time.com
... Image: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Garden, Thriving, 2016 (detail). Acrylic, transfers, colour pencil and collage on paper. Diptych, each: 213.4 x 274.3 cm, 84 x 108 in #TIME100NEXT @time
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Simone Leigh’s practice is an object-based exploration of vernacular visual traditions from throughout the black diaspora and their intersection with constructions of black female subjectivity, black feminist discourse, histories of radical resistance, and ethnographic research. Through her principal medium of ceramics, she relates quotidian objects to bodies, and labor to performance, exploring tropes of beauty, utility, agency, desire, and possession. In this work she draw...s upon disparate, seemingly anachronistic histories of ancient Roman-Egyptian and more recent American vernacular art and architecture, with a focus on the anthropomorphic features of objects and their relationship to specific functions. From a 200 BC bronze "Vase and lid in the form of a Nubian boy", to face jugs produced by enslaved African American potters in South Carolina, and to Mammy’s Cupboard – a Mississippi café housed in the figure of a woman’s skirt, Leigh’s new ceramic sculptures parse how these objects emblematize and problematize space in regard to the body, fusing and implicating the human form with architecture. -Daniella Rose King #SimoneYvetteLeigh @simoneyvetteleigh
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‘Think Tea, Think Cup II’ in Cheongju Craft Biennale 2019 by Ngozi Omeje @ngozichukwukaomeje (terracotta suspended on strings)

#Repost @contemporaryand ・・・ Okwui Enwezor's final exhibition will open in Sharjah in 2021.
The 15th @sharjahart Biennial in the United Arab Emirates will stage the last show by the renowned Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor, who passed away this year. Titled “Postcolonial,” the exhibition is a sequel to “Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945–1965” (2016–17), the comprehensive show of art created after World War II that opened at Munich’s Haus der Kunst, which ...he led from 2011 to 2018 • • #wearecontemporaryand #contemporaryand #art #sharjah #sharjahbiennial #okwuienwezor #biennale #uae #nigeria
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#Repost @galerie_magnin_a ・・・ This vintage Seydou Keïta that was part of the artist's retrospective at the Grand Palais in 2016 will be one of the highlights on our booth C11 during @parisphotofair ⁣ Paris Photo 2019⁣⁣ Grand Palais, Paris⁣⁣... Booth C11⁣⁣ ‪7 - 10 November 2019‬⁣⁣ DM for more information ⁣ Image: Seydou Keïta, Sans titre, Vintage print, 13 x 18 cm⁣ © Seydou Keïta / SKPEAC, courtesy Galerie MAGNIN-A, Paris⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #parisphoto #parisphoto2019 #MagninA #artfair #SeydouKeïta #Africanphotography #vintageprint #AfricanContemporaryArt #artgallery #grandpalais #parisexpo
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#Repost @rosiemads ・・・ “I see and think the world through my eyes...these images are reflections of my life, of myself” - Youssouf Sogodogo #Crossroads @blackshadeprojects x @ozwald_boateng @ Ozwald Boateng