A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography – Tate Modern show celebrates new generation of artists, but misses a trick
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Freitag, Juli 14, 2023
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Twenty-seven years later, Tate Modern is introducing a British audience to the next generation of African photographers.
Key Points:
- Twenty-seven years later, Tate Modern is introducing a British audience to the next generation of African photographers.
- With such a long gap, there are high expectations for A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography.
- Simultaneously, it stands as a long-awaited affirmation of African photographers, validating their unique use of the medium.
- At the same time, the artist herself is claiming her space in the exhibition as one of only 12 women featured.
Dialogue and consent
- a group of masked women drag golden water canisters through the busy streets of Lagos, Nigeria.
- It provokes dialogue where performance art is not widely understood or appreciated.
- Ogunji, born in Nigeria, received her BA from Stanford University and an MFA from San Jose State University in the US.
- They are part of the global art scene that sees African art as a growing investment opportunity.
- What struck me most about the exhibition was the consent implicitly and explicitly expressed in all the works by collaborating with the sitters and avoiding works created through covert observations.