Curating

Lagos Biennial 2024: REFUGE

Tafawa Balewa Square 3.2.2024 - 10.2.2024 The Lagos Biennial brings together artists who explore how to create an operative notion of refuge that can offer alternate paths towards constructing renewable communities and work towards ecological justice in this historical moment of systemic crisis. [read more] PROGRAMME

Et si Carthage?

Selma Feriani Gallery, La Goulette 25.1.2024 - 24.3.2024 Taking its title from philosopher Édouard Glissant’s question, ‘What If Carthage Hadn’t Been Destroyed?’ – Nidhal Chamekh’s, ‘Et si Carthage’, is inspired by the ancient city whose ruins are a ten-minute drive from Selma Feriani’s gallery space in downtown Tunis. By speculating on what might have happened if Carthage hadn’t been razed, Glissant offers a thought experiment in which the Punic people acted as a counterpoint to an empire that would go on to form the basis of Western civilization. [read more] PUBLICATION
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Green Snake: Women-Centred Ecologies

Tai Kwun Contemporary 25.3.2024 - 1.4.2024 Green Snake: women-centred ecologies focuses on the connections between art and the larger themes of ecology in the context of rising temperatures and extreme weather events. Gathering more than 30 artists and collectives from 20 countries, the exhibition presents over 60 works that draw on mythologies and world views with women at their heart to explore possibilities for other ecological relationships and imagine other futures. [read more] PUBLICATION
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Beauty and Terror: intersections of colonialism and fascism in Naples

Madre museum 24.06 — 26.09.2022 The exhibition Beauty and Terror: sites of colonialism and fascism at the Madre museum of contemporary art in 2022 and the subsequent publication of the same title took the city of Naples and the Italian context in the years around 1940 as points of departure in order to investigate, through the eyes of contemporary artists and critical thinkers, the history and continuing legacy of the interconnections between colonialism and fascism in Italy. [read more] PUBLICATION
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Clément Cogitore Ferdinandea

Madre museum 24.06 — 12.09.2022 Clément Cogitore’s new body of work, Ferdinandea, speculates, through 16mm film, video, photographs and historical documents, on the rise, fall and possible reemergence of an ephemeral volcanic island. Today, dormant eight meters below the waves, Ferdinandea could at any time re-emerge as a result of further seismic activity, and so spark new geopolitical manoeuvres. Cogitore orchestrates premonition, observation, metaphorical insight and fiction to consider what this tale may tell us of our current plight and our possible futures. [read more] PUBLICATION
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Utopia Dystopia

Madre musuem 23.10.2019 - 23.12.2019 Artists and critical thinkers address questions of technological diversity, scale and of social value, reaffirming other modes of existence, geographic articulations and cosmologies. [read more] Brochure