...Jessica Maxwell Showcasing works dating from the 1990s to present, Landscape + Object + Animal , William Pope.L’s 2010 solo exhibition at the Mitchell-Inness and Nash Gallery in Chelsea, offers a critical reflection on the social, political, and economic totalities that rule the society in which we...

... died brokenhearted in 1959, and his reputation sank into oblivion. Only since the 1990s and the arrival of South Africa’s new democracy has the work of this superbly gifted artist come to light. Copyright © 2013 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2013 Moses Tladi, Landscape Painter South...

... and nostalgic representations of iconic film houses, but as refigurations of landscape paintings. As Glissant puts it, landscape ( le paysage ) is not only a character on equal footing with the human and nonhuman species that occupy it in literature, paintings, and film; it has also become clear...

...Christina Knight Jacolby Satterwhite is known for creating virtual worlds that feature multiple avatars of himself voguing within densely rendered neon landscapes. He populates those landscapes with three-dimensional objects painstakingly traced in the animation program Maya from drawings that his...

... in 2006 from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Formative experiences for his art were his exposure to the diversity of Sudanese visual culture, arts, crafts, and landscape through annual trips to various parts of the country organized by the College of Fine and Applied Arts; the Western modernist...

... art and reviews their relevance within the artistic landscape of Cape Verde. Copyright © 2019 by Nka Publications 2019 César Schofield Cardoso Cardosa’s Républika Cardosa’s Ferrugem colonial representation postcinema ...

... history,” a form of visual genealogy Akomfrah calls “an essay” that is suited to a landscape in which fixed temporal or spatial narratives are no longer adequate. Copyright © 2019 by Nka Publications 2019 John Akomfrah Lisson Gallery diaspora Anthropocene Black Audio Film Collective Journal...

...: Deuxième Paris (2004, Niger/France) and Jean-Marie Teno’s Sacred Places (2009, Cameroon/France). In particular, the article considers how the films reterritorialize documentary aesthetics through the use of landscape and testimony as metaphors for Africa’s post-colonial struggles. In doing so...

... in a landscape of complexity and contradiction, where one person’s protest is another’s art, is a delicate affair. The primary subject may be history, the riot, that which “incited” the riot, its visual aesthetic, or all these and more simultaneously. Does focus on the iconography of the riot displace...

... representations of Algerian society different from those of their male counterparts. Considering her three earlier documentaries, one finds recurring themes that also run through Sahraoui’s latest film, Yema , including violence against women, the urgent need to resist, and the Kabyle landscape with its olive...

... portraits and landscape scenes in which she visualizes black- rather than white-centered histories, narratives, and memories. Creating images that are “louder than words,” Walker betrays her lifelong determination to give “voice to the voiceless and power to the powerless.” Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal...

...Christa Clarke This article considers what the African presence at the 2024 Venice Biennale says about visibility and the politics of representation related to broader shifts in the global cultural landscape. It offers an overview of the main exhibition, Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere...

... that we encounter in the landscape. The works of seven contemporary South African artists are discussed in this context, including the photography of David Goldblatt, Guy Tillim, and Santu Mofokeng, video work and anamorphic drawings by William Kentridge, film by Berni Searle, painting by Vivienne...

... to protect the Arctic landscape, wildlife, and indigenous peoples from unchecked industrialization but also about territorial expansion and the mining of natural resources. Moreover, this straightforward imperial rivalry for the Arctic resources that were once off-limits recalls earlier struggles for power...

... the landscapes of our collective memory. Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012...

... from Felix in Exile, 1994, courtesy: Goodman Gallery. cus attention on the stories themselves. In over-conscious disjunctures in the play sug• the landscape of South Africa's turbulent capturing the details of subjectivity, gest nothing of the ambiguities and slippages...

...Natalie Melas [email protected] Mario Lewis: Forest Notebooks . Medulla Art Gallery , Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago , November 1 – December 20 , 2023 Copyright © 2024 by Nka Publications 2024 Caribbean Trinidad living landscape abstraction agropoetics REVIEW...

...’ tactile texture is echoed and com- pelled to watch a woman make her way through a plemented by Tchif’s thick applications of earthen dramatic landscape that appears to retain little trace pigments that build up...

... to Okwui, November 2007 ve made three trips to Luanda this year and have ac - And among other books on landscape, dispossession, and cumulated a lot of quite diverse material. In making war, I was reading about Angola. (There’s a wonderful I’a final edit, I...

... as Jackson Pol- ongoing artistic response to the civil rights move- lock and Mark Rothko. As Erika Doss suggests, ment. The significance of Mayhew’s abstracted this exclusion “relates to postwar ideas regarding landscapes — with their saturated color and allied race, gender, and artistic...