...Jareh Das 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 Ethiopian iconography symbol- ized...

... 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...

... 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 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 3/4 x 29 1/2 in. Courtesy the artist...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu the social imaginary — especially in an Egypt riven From the Editor by religious anxieties and political oppression. Chika Okeke-Agulu If Silence of the Sheep carried a frontal...

... 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...

..., 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 35 5/16 in. Art Institute of Chicago, Margaret Fisher Fund. © Charles White Archives Cutler-Bittner Nka 147 Hope for the Future, 1945...

... 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...

.... 3 You did what you thought was your destiny: You gave away your love, and left in silence, without the time to understand who you really are. Cambridge, MA, 2020 * After W. H. Auden s Funeral Blues Octavio Zaya is an art critic and curator living in New York City who served as cocurator...

... images of death, enables us to blames "man's hate" and calls on God to explain the approach their acquired emotional resonance, I want events, and to explain the silence, among the trees to open my discussion historically. But I dressed this that He "gave." What it is to be on "our knees...

... re- This characterization ol the genocide as "centuries-old. . . tribal war- sponsefromoutsidewouldhavesavedthousandsoflives.Twoweeksintothe fare" or "an atavistic replaying of ancient hatreds"" would be repeated Above: The Silence of Nduwayezu, 1997, light table, slides, slide magnifiers, light...