A Mobile Message | Kibera’s Youth Spray For Peace
Guest contribution from Nairobi, Kenya by Joel Lukhovi Kibera, one of Nairobi’s largest slums, and the second largest urban slum continentally, experienced some of the worst violence during Kenya’s post election crisis of…
Yuriko Takagi | A World Without Mirrors
Pleats Please Travel Through Morocco. Photo | Yuriko Takagi Are we not to agree that we find pleasure in the vanities of adornment? The late Diane Vreeland may have wished more so, when…
This Undreamt Descent | Wangechi Mutu Exhibits at Kunsthalle Baden Baden
With a striking mise-en-scène, This Undreamt Descent, the solo exhibition of mixed media artist Wangechi Mutu at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden could hardly find a title more befitting. Between object, installation and setting…
Alice Hawkins | From Nairobi With Love
The way a new language might emerge to help shape and form a new reality, so Alice Hawkins frees her subjects from the chains of business as usual. With her Nairobi shoot for…
Wangechi Mutu | The Catatonic Bliss of Violent Incidences
Kenyan born and New York based Wangechi Mutu undoubtedly stands as one of today’s most unorthodox and inscrutable mixed media artists. Through intricate collages, she sublimates the female body and its psyche transmuting it into…
Farewell My Africa
When you have been born in Africa you are marked by Africa and wherever you go, you are a displaced person, for you have two identities — Mirella Ricciardi
