{"id":59298,"date":"2022-08-05T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/african-cosmologies-redux\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:42:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:42:35","slug":"african-cosmologies-redux","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/african-cosmologies-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"African Cosmologies: Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curated by Mark Sealy, Director of the renowned London-based photographic art institution Autograph ABP,\u00a0<em>African Cosmologies: Redux<\/em>\u00a0is a large-scale group exhibition that examines the complex relationships between contemporary life in Africa, the African diaspora, and global histories of colonialism, photography, and rights and representation. The exhibition considers the history of photography as one closely tied to a colonial project and Western image production, highlighting artists who confront and challenge this shortsighted, albeit canonized lineage.<\/p>\n<p>Taking its cues from John Coltrane\u2019s avant-garde jazz oeuvre, wherein formal modernisms of the past are made complex by radical imagination and black- futurity, this presentation of diverse ideas, artistic approaches, and material histories proposes a \u201ccosmological exploration\u201d of Africa and the African diaspora\u2014 one that defies easy categorization and spatial and temporal boundaries. Succinctly, it explores the very notions of Africa and Africanness beyond traditional geographic and historical lines.<\/p>\n<p>The artists featured in\u00a0<em>African Cosmologies: Redux<\/em>\u00a0turn an eye to social, cultural, and political conditions that inform and influence concepts of representation as they pertain to image production and circulation within Africa and beyond. These artists question the ways in which subjectivity is constructed and deconstructed by the camera, and in the process, reveal legacies of resistance by those who defy traditional ideas of sexual, racial, gender-based, and other marginalized identities.<\/p>\n<p><em>African Cosmologies: Redux<\/em>\u00a0is presented in venues city-wide including at Spring Street Studios at Sawyer Yards, The Alta Arts, the Houston Museum of African American Culture, and the Menil Collection.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition is accompanied by a Biennial Book, co-published by FotoFest Inc. and Schilt Publishing, and features texts by curator Mark Sealy and leading voices in literature, theory, and visual art as well as beautiful images of works by the exhibition artists. The Biennial Book can be purchased at Silver Street Studios, Whitehall Houston Hotel, and online.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The artists featured in the\u00a0<em>African Cosmologies: Redux<\/em>\u00a0exhibition include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spring Street Studios:<\/strong><br \/>\nAkinbode Akinbiyi, James Barnor, Edson Chagas, Ernest Cole, Jean Depara, Laura El-Tantawy, Lyle Ashton Harris, Samson Kambalu, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, leo with Shobun Baile, Santu Mofokeng, Sethembile Msezane, Zanele Muholi, Eust\u00e1quio Neves, Nyaba L. Ouedraogo, Rosana Paulino, Dawit L. Petros, Aida Silvestri, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, and Wilfred Ukpong<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Alta Arts:<\/strong><br \/>\nSammy Baloji &amp;\u00a0M\u00f3nica de Miranda<\/p>\n<p><strong>Houston Museum of African American Culture:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0Faisal Abdu\u2019Allah,\u00a0H\u00e9l\u00e8ne A. Amouzou, Bruno Boudjelal, Jamal Cyrus,\u00a0Rahima Gambo,\u00a0Eric Gyamfi,\u00a0Santu Mofokeng<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Menil Collection:<\/strong><br \/>\nSamuel Fosso<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":59296,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[218],"app_city_tax":[222],"app_event_type":[237],"class_list":["post-59298","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-visual-arts","app_city_tax-hou","app_event_type-festival"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>African Cosmologies: Redux - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/african-cosmologies-redux\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"African Cosmologies: Redux - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Curated by Mark Sealy, Director of the renowned London-based photographic art institution Autograph ABP,\u00a0African Cosmologies: Redux\u00a0is a large-scale group exhibition that examines the complex relationships between contemporary life in Africa, the African diaspora, and global histories of colonialism, photography, and rights and representation. 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