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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 112–130.
Published: 01 May 2021
... strategies in several groundbreaking exhibitions to confront the “complex predicaments of contemporary art in a time of profound historical change and global transformation.” While Enwezor was neither an explicit source of inspiration nor invoked for the Cherry River project, the futures of Enwezor...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 34–43.
Published: 01 November 2023
... aversion toward migrations and border-crossings. He created Le Jardin to restore the deserved dignity and respect of those who drowned in the Mediterranean en route to Europe. Koraïchi’s Le Jardin not only speaks to the place of art as a purposeful human endeavor, but also unmasks his profound grasp...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 101–112.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., over three hundred works in a variety of mediums, and numerous performances that took place in multiple venues. Building on Enwezor’s biennial concept and the many conversations she had with him during his lifetime, Al Qasimi created a space where Enwezor’s curatorial vision flourished. The profound...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 134–135.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., advocacy, and pivotal work created space for the radical imaginary. Okwui last visited my studio in Harlem in 2017, and, as ever, he conjured my material, process, and visual movements and spun the abstract into a profound concretization of everything at hand. He spoke to me with great passion and detail...
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Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 196–197.
Published: 01 May 2008
... this article, I remembered the night in March 2007 when I experienced a profound feeling of being compelled to write down my thoughts and my emotions on this process that I had unconsciously taken on and a distinct sense of being guid• ed.The words tumbled from my mind and onto the page...
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Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 192–193.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., if Choir at the Gates of Heaven (Michael him. one enters Botes's world . . . and no. Stevenson, Cape Town, 2007). These are images of a profound angst Yes because Botes's vision is deeply and disillusion, made only more chill...
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Nka (2007) 2007 (21): 8–9.
Published: 01 May 2007
..., partly because it concerning African or African diasporic identities, cul• forced artists to ask profound questions about the roots tures, and art practice. The history of photographic of representation and partly because it changed the way practices in Africa and its diaspora are no exception...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (52): 108–119.
Published: 01 May 2023
... with the return home and a new, more profound engagement through reconnection to especially G kuyu cultural and political history and experience with the place and role of women in the sustenance of society and life past and present. Throned (2022), which I saw last summer before its completion, exemplifies Mutu...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (32): 146–148.
Published: 01 May 2013
.... Vietnamese their and soldiers African West these to born children the of that story: profound more even an for a backdrop notenough,were Mora- history military this of elucidation the War.if As Indochina inthe troops African of presence significant the to points nonetheless...
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Nka (1999) 1999 (10): 14–17.
Published: 01 May 1999
... on the person of the slave. A common view among Europeans held expression of Gericault's reflection on the profound precariousness of tradition• that the black body was a savage body, descended from a tribe of cannibals. al conceptions of race and sexuality at the dawn...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (28): 114–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
.... The work also seems to promote cacophony, and as they experienced a moment of varying forms of community — situating the com- profound realization: that the awe-­inspiring work municative nature of graphic languages and the pro- is composed of such deceptively mundane...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 152–153.
Published: 01 May 2021
...-present. Adam Szymczyk, in twenty-first-century arts. Enwezor honored my the artistic director of Documenta14, still speaks of work by using a piece as promotional material for Okwui with profound gratitude and admiration. the biennial press. By the time I managed to invite Okwui as guest It is still hard...
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Nka (2001) 2001 (13-14): 26–33.
Published: 01 May 2001
... that institutions plicated question. If I don't mark myself that for institutions not to mark their staff for have learned a lesson that really assimilates way it is inevitable that this culture will. The what that mark might mean to make institu• the intellectual questions and complexity of profound thing...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (28): 20–33.
Published: 01 May 2011
... would have a profound be, even dictating how you should react whilst they impact on him. The art historian John Picton qual- are oppressing you. All township artists living under ifies the importance of the encounter as follows: apartheid conditions were, in their various ways...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 126–136.
Published: 01 November 2023
... at SB15 fortifies this assertion in its monumental beauty and in its profound cruciality. Ibrahim Mahama: Four Installations Born in Ghana, Ibrahim Mahama is known for his large installations that address issues of migration, exploitation, global economic exchange, and colonialism. The works are often...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 120–126.
Published: 01 May 2024
... by Emma Lewis, curator at Turner Contemporary in Kent, UK, brought together the captivating works of South African artists Sue Williamson and Lebohang Kganye, offering a profound exploration of history, memory, and self-narration. The exhibition was a milestone for both artists, marking their most...
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Nka (2001) 2001 (15): 26–29.
Published: 01 November 2001
... and then series, the Rhamb paintings embody Nevertheless, his most profound cultural emporary African Art Landscape of the Sahel, ink on paper, 1977, 29" x 39.5". Photo Beatrice Hatala. feeling is African. As Iba Ndiaye's production advances, he is Franz W. Kaiser...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 4–5.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and the movement it catalyzed announce a new civil rights era, we have to ask, with an eye to history: When will contemporary artists acknowledge through their work that something profound, once again, Nka...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 4–5.
Published: 01 May 2024
... the resources of African and Black history, memory, and arts and cultures, Radcliffe reveled in it with such grace, passion, and conviction. The result, as the survey of his art, Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine, at Atlanta s High Museum in 2011 made evident, is work that is at once profound in formal...
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Nka (2002) 2002 (16-17): 24–31.
Published: 01 May 2002
... was that delineate the temporal and spiritual realities of Igbo soci• poignant and extremely profound. eties in terms of visual imagery. EBONY QUEST Agbogho Mmuo, oils on canvas, 1978...