The FAS Collection is thrilled to announce the exhibition From the surrounds, we build the present curated by Cindy Sissokho and in collaboration with Galerias Municipais/EGEAC at Galeria do Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional.
The exhibition explores everyday realities and moments of freedom that people generate within the environments they inhabit. Thinking from the concept of the surrounds by scholar and urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone, the exhibition focuses on what he refers to as the spaces in an ongoing process of reconstruction, preservation, fugitivity and transformation by their inhabitants, whether human or non-human.
Here, the notion of the surrounds also invokes myth as a force of fiction, imagination and ingenious refusals. These refusals take spatial and aesthetic form, enabling the re-narration of histories and the exposure of their visible and invisible infrastructures.
These stories are an homage to the “collective lives of continuous remaking” as a possibility to inhabit our environments with the liberating agency to socialise, to improvise and to thrive. Through raw materials, textures, patterns, imagery, and archives as critical forms, the artists depict moments that oscillates between resistance and existence, tension and joy, acting as a driving force to continue thriving in and with the present.
Founded in 2016, Forward Art Stories is driven and strengthened by the ideas behind the diverse narratives and artistic expressions of the African continent and its diaspora. To promote new readings of the collection, FAS invited Cindy Sissokho to collaborate in its programme by curating a group exhibition exploring themes in the collection.
Integrated artists:
Integrated artists:
Abdoulaye Konaté, António Ole, Délio Jasse, Edson Chagas, Ernest Mancoba, Felix Shumba, Frida Orupabo, Gabriel Chaile, Grada Kilomba, Hank Willis Thomas, Hicham Benohoud, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Kiripi Katembo, Mónica de Miranda, Moshekwa Langa, Pascoal Viegas Vilhete (Sum Canarim), René Tavares, Sandra Poulson, Teresa Kutala Firmino, William Kentridge, Yinka Shonibare and Zoulikha Bouabdellah.
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