‘Africa, for African, by Africans’: The first pan-African art exhibition hopes to breakdown geographic borders and redraw the map of the continent's contemporary art
DAKAR - Five towering wooden figures dwarf visitors to the “Lend Me Your Dream” exhibition at Dakar’s Museum of Black Civilisations. The sculptures of fire-darkened cedar stand in a circle, as if deep in conversation.
“Too often, the trajectories of artists from Africa have been built through exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, London, New York ... ,” senior curator Yacouba Konate says in the introduction to the show. The more than 100 artworks in “Lend Me Your Dream” are in a range of media, from photography and collage to painting and sculptures of wood, metal or salvaged materials.
Visitors walk past a sculpture of a Moroccan artist Mahi Benebine exhibited at"Prete-moi ton reve" , an itinerant exhibition of 33 African artists currently displayed at the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Senegal January 10, 2020. Picture taken January 10, 2020. REUTERS/Zohrta Bensemra
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