Main entry:

FotoFest Biennial (18th : 2020 : Houston, Tex.),

Title & Author:

African cosmologies : photography, time, and the other / organized and edited by Mark Sealy, Steven Evans, Max Fields ; foreword, Steven Evans ; with essays and texts by Christine Eyene [and four others].

Publication:

Amsterdam, NL : Schilt Publishing ; Houston, Texas, USA : FotoFest, [2020]
©2020

Description:

296 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at FotoFest Biennial, Houston, USA, March 8-April 19, 2020.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Steven Evans -- From a letter by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to his daughters Maggie and Liza / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- African cosmologies : photography, time, and the other / Mark Sealy -- Artists -- Photography and the substance of the image / Olu Oguibe -- The Bamako encounters: on the possibility of hope and the future as promise / Christine Eyene -- A letter from Lagos / Azu Nwagbogu.

Summary:

Curated by renowned London-based curator, Mark Sealy MBE, the FotoFest Biennial 2020, 'African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other' brings together over 30 artists from around the globe whose works challenge traditional notions of Blackness and transnational histories in relation to concepts of liberty, rights, and representation. Taking its cues from John Coltrane's avant-garde jazz oeuvre, wherein formal modernisms of the past are made complex by radical imagination and black-futurity, this presentation of diverse ideas, artistic approaches, and material histories proposes a cosmological exploration of Africa and the contemporary African diaspora; one that defies easy categorization and spatial and temporal boundaries. In their unique practices, the featured artists turn an eye to social, cultural, and political conditions that inform and influence concepts of representation as they pertain to image production and circulation in Africa and beyond. These artists question the ways in which subjectivity is constructed and deconstructed by the camera, and in the process, reveal legacies of resistance by those who defy traditional ideas of sexual, racial, gender-based, and other marginalized identities.Produced in conjunction with the FotoFest Biennial 2020 exhibition, the 'African Cosmologies' book will feature essays by leading scholars in the fields of contemporary art, photography, and cultural studies. Images of installations, photography, film, and video works by artists will highlight the range of interdisciplinary approaches that are represented in the Biennial exhibition. Exhibition: FotoFest Biennial, Houston, USA (08.03.-19.04.2020).

ISBN:

9789053309322 (hardback)
9053309322 (hardback)

Subject:

Photography, Artistic 21st century Exhibitions.
Art, Modern 21st century Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photographie artistique 21e siècle Expositions.
Art 21e siècle Expositions.
Art, Modern
Photography, Artistic

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Sealy, Mark, organizer, editor.
Evans, Steven (Curator), organizer, editor, writer of foreword.
Fields, Max, organizer, editor.
Eyene, Christine, writer of supplementary textual content.

Photography, time, and the other

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321962
Call No.: 321962
Copy: 1
Status: Available