Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019) was an internationally recognized and pathbreaking art curator, former director of Haus der Kunst, founder of
Colonial Imaginary, Tropes of Disruption: History, Culture, and Representation in the Works of African Photographers (1996) Available to Purchase
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Published:August 2025
Okwui Enwezor, Octavio Zaya, 2025. "Colonial Imaginary, Tropes of Disruption: History, Culture, and Representation in the Works of African Photographers (1996)", Selected Writings, Volume 1: Toward a New African Art Discourse, Okwui Enwezor, Terry Smith
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Written with Octavio Zaya, this essay introduced the catalog of the exhibition In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present, shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, from May to September 1996. Curated by Enwezor and Zaya, along with Clare Bell and Danielle Tilkin, the exhibition presented the work of thirty photographers, most of whose work was seen for the first time by US viewers.
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