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Akinbode Akinbiyi (b. 1946, Oxford, UK)
Akinbode Akinbiyi lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He studied literature in Nigeria, the UK and Germany. He began taking photographs in 1974, initially focusing on urban space, and then on big cities. For several years, he has been working on four African megalopolises: Cairo in Egypt; Lagos in Nigeria; Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo; and Johannesburg in South Africa. During his walks along their roads he captures an everyday life that is somewhat out of joint.
Jane Alexander (b. 1959, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Jane Alexander lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. She trained as an artist in Johannesburg. She works with various media, including: sculpture, photomontage and video. In her installation African Adventure (1999-2002) Alexander reworks South Africa’s official history. This work was originally set up in the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, the oldest building in South Africa and built by the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century.
Fernando Alvim (b. 1963, Luanda, Angola)
Fernando Alvim lives and works in Luanda and Brussels, Belgium. Alvim is a self-taught artist who works with various media. In his art he relentlessly deals with the wounds infl
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October 19, 2024–February 16, 2025
Entrance in Taylor Hall
Narrative Wisdom and African Arts
Narrative Wisdom and African Arts considers how historical and contemporary African arts make visible narratives that are rooted in collective and individual memory and knowledge. This exploration examines arts at the intersection of the visual and verbal. Also significant are pictorial arts that feature figurative scenes suggesting part of or an entire narrative. Historical works made by artists across sub-Saharan Africa during the 13th to 20th centuries dialogue with contemporary works created by African artists practicing around the globe.
Oral traditions claim historical prominence and continue to play a significant role in perpetuating knowledge among the sub-Saharan cultures whose arts are on view. This exhibition offers a rich variety of visual modes that reflect the orally transmitted wisdom.
Artistic genres represented include sculpture, textiles, works on paper, photography, painting, and digital media, produced for diverse patrons. These arts facilitate, document, reinforce, or critique narratives pertaining to the legitimacy and legacy of leaders, memory of place, prescriptions for destiny and healing, and enduring ancestral wisdoms.
Like oral traditions,