Trine Lindegaard | Mind(s) The Credibility Gap
The whole lot becomes some ugly and ignoble affair; every designer ‘inspired by Africa’ a lightly concuss character immunised against contact on the intuition level. The mass clamor of grand sighs on how…
What Can These Photographs Tell Us?
Photography from and about Africa is gaining interest and scholarship judging from the turn out at the one day symposium Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive, held this past November, 2012…
Jim Naughten | A Namibian Pain Swathed, Festooned Away
Jim Naughten, Hereros In my childhood, always with deep allure, at times to the point of preoccupation I would keep my eyes peeled for them. When it happened, among the fridges of a supermarket…
Invenzioni e Capricci
Floral whimsy through the ages, from Italian renaissance painter Guiseppe Arcimboldo, to the photography of German-born Hans Silvester previously featured in the story Oh To Be So Adroit capturing the visual wonders and ornamentation…
Oh To Be So Adroit
“Body painting, as practiced here in East Africa, the cradle of humanity, seems to me to represent a way of life that dates from prehistory and once enabled humankind to overcome the…
The Shaded Spectacle
The imaginary evolution of the spectacle, from beaded head-dresses, finely woven metal fringed visors to venetian blind and shutter shade sunglasses.
