Somerset House
E11
VIP and Press Preview Thursday 10 October 11:00 – 19:00 [by invitation only] Public and VIP Opening Friday 11 October 11:00 – 19:00 Saturday 12 October 11:00 – 19:00 Sunday 13 October 11:00 – 18:00
https://www.1-54.com/london/
Through this project THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE aims to generate a dialogue between countries with colonial and historic affinities which reflects on the concept of decoloniality and seeks to promote a reflection on how contemporary African art has been affirming itself on a global scale.
This statement has been verified either through the production of a disruptive discursive position 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 sharing of African territories by the colonizing peoples, which produced a unilateral reading of their influence on the cultural and artistic constitution of the colonized countries. This project developed and curated specifically for 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair London 2024, reflects on the emergence of a critical vision of colonialism and the importance that the African diaspora - personified in these artists - the curatorial projects, researches and documental studies assume in the production of a renewal of the historical discourse of art in contemporary times.
