...Eddie Chambers Copyright © 2019 by Nka Publications 2019 Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 20194 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-7916808 © 2019 by Nka Publications OLABISI OBAFUNKE SILVA In Memoriam (1962 2019) W ithout a shadow of a doubt, Olabisi Obafunke Silva (known as Bisi...

...Bisi Silva Copyright © 1998 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1998 An 'other' stop on the global art trail. The recent boom in Biennales and mega-exhibitions especially outside the center of the Western art metropolis made 1997 an ex...

...Olabisi Silva Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 ...

..., this article highlights the artistic contributions of figures such as Ayrson Heráclito, Alex da Silva, Kiluanji Kia Henda, and Filipe Branquinho. The works of these artists are analyzed as reflections of decolonial practices, intertwined with discourses of resistance against the exploitation of natural...

... References are to Nka cofounders Chika Okeke- is disremember. Funny, I m not even sure it s a Agulu and Salah M. Hassan, and independent curator real word, but I read it once in a Mark Twain Olabisi (Bisi) Obafunke Silva (1962 2019). novel when I was a kid and remembered it. It s a perfect word, better than...

...• merely accept, but must try to understand the rea• tographed the da Silva family and was particularly sons for, the conditions of his subjects. moved by the condition of their 12-year-old son, It is not surprising that Gordon Parks's last Flavio, who was dying from tuberculosis. Flavio...

... in Mauritian Creole, Island Studies Journal 11, no. 2 (2016): 488. 17 Ana Maria Garcia Nolasco da Silva, Entrevista com Irineu Destourelles. Verifebura: Prática Colonial e Consciência Pós-colonial, Buala, March 28, 2016, httpswww.buala.org/pt/cara-a-cara /entrevista-com-irineu-destourelles-0. My...

... Oosterbroek (1962 94), Greg Marinovich, and João Silva is a prime illustration of the former genre of struggle photography, with the ethical commitments of these four being emblematic Lee Nka 141 Mrs. Albertina Sisulu Addressing Newly Elected Leaders of the Natal Organisation of Women. 1983. Inkjet print...

...). 3. Bisi Silva, “The Politics of Re/presenting: Within and With- Yukiya Kawaguchi is associate professor at the out,” in A Fateful Journey: Africa in the Works of El Anatsui (exhi- bition catalogue), ed. Yukiya Kawaguchi et al...

... Notes com- Pictures. Street pany, Prince production her through (2011) Anatsui El of Art The Crush: Crumple who recently produced and directed Vogel isSusan a and scholar filmmaker guchi. Kawa- by texts main Spring, the with Chris along and Silva, Bisi Asaki...

... - - - - together and not a planned program.” aplanned not and together people bring to act aspontaneous was .It it. with engaged that platform a provide to wanted we and moment, social and political important an was Nigeria “Occupy explained: Silva Bisi director Lagos CCA...

... father's bams and things of that sort. It struck me Flavio Da Silva, the little boy who was dying in Brazil but I didn't absorb it, not until later on when I went who was poverty-stricken and taking care of his broth• back to Kansas, years later, on an assignment from Life ers and sisters; he's only...

..., “Ghana, UK and Homosexuality,” Ghanaian Times, November 8, 2011. 7 Elias Kifton Bongmba, Francesca Consagra, and Banning Eyre, The Progress of Love, ed. Kristina Van Dyke and Bisi Silva (Houston: The Menil Collection; St. Louis: The Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 2012). 8 A reference...

... on fashion, but on all of the creative offers pared-back uptown silhouettes for young industries. Music, literature, film, and art are women, while Lanre da Silva Ajayi explores demure all gaining traction. Add to this the fact that an tailoring with a 1950s twist. And newcomer Adebayo estimated 70...

... Dominique Zinkpe, whose exposure in Dak'Art led to other 1993): pp. 114-116, 138; Bisi Silva, "Dak'Art 2000", Third Text international shows. 53 (autumn 2000); pp. 103-106. 20 Chika Okeke, "Dak'Art 98, An Interview with the 3rd 3...

...-African curatorial platform, Àsìkò, initiated in 2010 by the late curator Bisi Silva.20 At this biennale, perhaps more so than ever before, showing up meant using the historic platform strategically by challenging its representational structure, foregrounding Africanbased knowledge systems and tradition...

... by Bisi Silva, Marianne Hultmann, and Daniella van Dijk-Wennberg; Looking Inside Out, curated by Maaretta Jaukkuri and Cristina Ricupero; Hypocrisy: The Site Specificity of Morality, curated by Koyo Kouoh and Stina Hogkvist; and Trapped in Amber: Angst for a Reenacted Decade, cu- rated by Bassam El Baroni...

... of researching African art- And this brings me to my last question, which is ists by Africans themselves is paramount. And this not on Chika’s list. A year or so ago I was in Lagos work has to be undertaken in terms that are broader chatting with Bisi Silva and she asked me why it than nationalist...

... ini• and from South Africa. The challenge then is for tiatives are taking place: Bisi Silva from Lagos is curators to be active from and on the continent, opening a small contemporary center in Lagos in for exhibitions to be curated on and from the con• December while a new art...

... by curators living on directly to the value of our work and to the nature the continent (N’Goné Fall, Bisi Silva, and Rachida of its audiences. Triki). Lurking in his question are two unwelcome Meanwhile, collections and at least one contem- challenges: how valid...