...Jareh Das © 2020 by Nka Publications 2020 RE V IE W S Journal of Contemporary African Art 46 May 2020184 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-8308306 © 2020 by Nka Publications SILENCE: EPHREM SOLOMON KRISTIN HJELLEGJERDE, LONDON JANUARY 6 FEBRUARY 3, 2018 The wide, almond-shaped eyes in an- cient...

... Film Group Sudanese cinema African cinema experimental film Dialogues in Silence Ibrahim Shaddad Through the Frame Leena Habiballa I brahim Hamid Shaddad is a distinctive presence amongst cultural workers in Sudan. As a prolific filmmaker, theatre director, and arts educator, he embodies a spirit...

... criticality of affirmation versus ty to permutate new chains of meaning from a single source of negation. It is the documents' very silence, their refusal of a origin. The potentiality of an endless connectivity elicits its fas• transparency of meaning, their address to an ultimate...

... of silence also materialize, as if the jerba s are telling the viewer that there are histories and stories one cannot comprehend. Abebe’s critical engagement through these works responds to the changing pressures of time and place, particularly the ambiguities of modern citizenship in the Ethiopian state...

... title, Phoebe Boswell: For Every Real Word Spoken , is taken from Audre Lorde’s essay, “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” (1977). The exhibition is composed of a series of eight drawings of eight female figures, an animation, and ephemeral drawings and texts on the gallery walls...

... next step, Iago’s Mirror (2009), shifts attention to Othello’s nemesis. The mirror’s silence corresponds to Iago’s refusal to talk announced in his final statement: “From this time forth I never will speak word.” How does Wilson’s mirror speak, and what critical perspective does it imply toward...

... the performance project to its smallest function, its primal function, which is to share, and designed Le Concert to be relational between artist and visitor and between visitors.44 To compose her work from the perspective of a musician, Echakhch researched theories of sound and silence, and psychoacoustics...

... UICCII The first installation of Silence of Silence. Specifically, the and who's the guest? Who's the New Haven, Connecticut took place in the historic Center series of photographs were...

... photographs. Two se- saydi has inscribed with henna, using a fi xed feature of the palace, confi - ries, the Three Silences (2003) and the a technique called washi, across the dent women with legitimate claims to installation Embodiment, refl ect the fi gures and their white backdrop. The the colors...

... at the Susanne Vielmetter Projects in ically meet him through an oral con• Los Angeles. nection. The monkey unites disparate The injured, silenced body of the colo• Mutu has become one...

...Wangechi Mutu © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Voice and Visibility Wangechi Mutu It was Audre Lorde who said, My silences had not Wangechi Mutu, Outstretched, 2019. Paper pulp, wood glue, soil, charcoal, protected me. Your silence will not protect you. 1 pigment, and feathers, 35 7/8 x 63 3...

... If Silence of the Sheep carried a frontal politi- cal charge, Kenawy’s other work tended to be more contemplative, metaphysical, and melancholic. In ast year we lost two friends and colleagues, The Room (2004...

... in its wake. Rape is but one of those social fabric. Fools confronts these contradictions, as well as issues of powerfully debilitating social problems, the silence that surrounds it, and alienation — particularly those that arise out of generational differences the seemingly tacit...

... African Art speaks. Students are moved by the author's tone as students that they will have ten minutes of silence to he accepts the inevitability of death. Some students look at two images projected on the screen. I vary the ask why McKay's men must die in the first place and two images I...

... composed this silence, its hostility to literature, to narrative, little number. Politcal, sensual, richly imag• and White" (although only about half the to discourse."1...

... lithographs with color sheet, 34.5 x 48.8 cm (13 9/16 x 19 3/16 in Courtesy Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Like the related fields of American history and literature, American art history has also been shaped by the silences that define the archive of slavery. How...

...- tion. The other late show-stopper featured Banner for Willy J. (1976), a memorial to a cousin killed as an innocent bystander in a robbery, has tragi- cally new power in our era of Black Lives Matter. The stenciled word BANG beneath the image of a Sound of Silence, 1978. Lithograph on paper, 25 1/8 x...

... of the desert and of its silence, the unknowable face of which is translated into the metaphor of white. His attention is geared towards the essential relationships that arise between the bare objects and the empty surface, as exemplified by several beautifully titled works of the period...

... will to The show of Basquiat's "Works in Black ularly elevated pitch when he composed this silence, its hostility to literature, to narrative, little number. Politcal, sensual, richly imag• and White" (although only about half...

... shame because of their morally com- mayhem.”23 Again and again, South African whites promised position and counseled humility and in such accounts look on, or look back, from the silence in the political realm.24 Vice’s piece inspired periphery — of the township, of the city’s down- a vigorous...