1-54 CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART FAIR LONDON 2024: Group Show: René Tavares, Cássio Markowski, Ibrahim Bemba Kébé

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.