Zeitz MOCAA–HUMA When We See Us webinar

Speakers:

  • Nana Adusei-Poku, PhD, Assistant Professor in African Diasporic Art History, Department of History of Art, University of California Berkeley, United States
  • O’Neil Lawrence, Chief Curator, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
  • Renée Akitelek Mboya, Nairobi-based writer, curator and filmmaker
  • Taiye Selasi, writer and photographer, author of Ghana Must Go and Bye-Bye, Babar (Or: What Is an Afropolitan?)  

The session will consider the identifiable turn towards Black figuration and portraiture as a way of visualising a liminal and multifaceted sense of Black identity and experience in the work of contemporary artists of African descent. It will furthermore inform and complicate our perception of contemporary Black identities, inviting pan-Diasporic connection and relation.

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