...Roberta Bonetti Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 BRULY BOUABRE'S ALPHABET A film by Nurith Aviv st Run / Icarus Films, 2005 From the very beginning of Bruly Bouabre's Alphabet, one is struck...

...Okwui Enwezor Copyright © 1995 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1995 THE INVERTED SIGN Okwui Enwezor FREDERIC BRULY BOUABRE'S postcard-sized drawings rendered with colored pen• cils on cardboard possess a strange and intoxicating charm. Poised between a readily...

... Bouabre's immensely exquisite and painstaking creation and documentation of real and fictive signification systems, con• ceived in colourful miniature...

... of late capitalism. sphere of origin. Bourdieu's was in mind such artists as Cheri cate the specter. The work among The inclusion of Valentine Yves an analysis of a specific moment Samba and Felix Bouabre, the them "sits...

... and In hundreds of small ink and pencil drawings surrounded by underdevelopment typical of global cities. text, Frederic Bruly Bouabre' records various systems of meaning The video installation Flow (2002) by Igor and Svetlana foreign to most Western observers. These include...

... and Sabine Dahl Nielsen s article Enwezor s alism is presumed to be a Western practice and Model and Copenhagen s Center for Art on Migra- ideology. By situating the work of African artists in tion Politics recognizes the very migrant relations the 1950s to 1980s, such as Frédéric Bruly Bouabré...

... Bruly Bouabré (Cote d Ivore); the Laboratoire Agit-Art group (Senegal); Rachid Koraïchi (Algeria); and South African art- ists Malcolm Payne, Willem Boshoff, and Kendell Geers. He situated them within the classical art of Africa and the same conceptualist strategies prevalent in the West. 4 Enwezor...

..., shrine and installation? Or Fredéric Bruly cultural and visual studies and, even more, to have Bouabré’s endless compendia in works such as Con- in some instances repudiated identity politics in naissance du monde, L’alphabet bête, or Musée du art. Yet the differences between various...