CAPE TOWN ART FAIR 2023: Group Show: Barbara Wildenboer, Malebona Maphutse, Nicole Rafiki, Pedro Pires and Patrick Bongoy

Through this project, the gallery aims to generate a dialogue between countries with colonial and historical affinities, reflecting on the concept of decoloniality and seeking to promote a reflection on how contemporary African art has been affirming itself on a global scale. This statement has been verified by a disruptive discursive position produced in the context of a postcolonial debate that has remained, for decades, transversely marked by a certain blind Eurocentrism - a rooted theorization that stems from the processes of occupation and division of African territories by the colonizing peoples, who produced a unilateral reading of their influence on the cultural and artistic constitution of the colonized countries.

This project developed and curated specifically for ICTAF – Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2023, reflects on the emergence of a critical vision of colonialism. In addition, it reflects on the importance that the African diaspora - materialized in the works of Barbara Wildenboer, Malebona Maphutse, Nicole Rafiki, Pedro Pires and Patrick Bongoy – associated curatorial projects, research, and documental studies more broadly assume in the production of a renewed historical discourse of art in contemporary times.