Zeitz MOCAA–HUMA When We See Us webinar

With speakers Ashraf Jamal (South African academic, writer and cultural analyst), Keyna Eleison (curator, researcher and professor at Parque Lage School of Visual Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and (BFC Presidential Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, United States).

Ashraf Jamal, Picture: Gavin Firlonger
 
Keyna Eleison
 
Huey Copeland

Looking back on a broad spectrum of global cultural movements toward Black liberation in the 20th century, there has been a representational imperative of Black figurative art and exhibition histories that assert the political impact of Black identity, aesthetics and philosophy.

As part of Zeitz MOCAA’s webinar series in collaboration with the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), University of Cape Town (UCT), our third session of the When We See Us webinar series asks how and why Black figuration offers a space for the projection of new vocabularies and shared imaginaries in the representation of the self.  See event page on Zeitz MOCAA for more.