In a biennial and two recent photobooks, artists consider the postcolonial African subject through intriguingly intimate images.
Todd Gray’s layered compositions examine legacies of colonialism in Africa and Europe.
Sandrine Colard and Laurence Butet-Roch examine the history of how African women have been pictured, and in turn, how they look back at the viewer.
Ayana V. Jackson’s exhibition of radically speculative character portraits inaugurates the midwest home of a leading American gallery.
An exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery captures the dizzying array of post-independence African photography.
In her latest exhibition, Phoebe Boswell takes self-portraits—and self-healing—to a new level.
Through ambitious shows staged around the world, the curator raised the profile of African art and photography.
Through her ambitious curating, writing, and teaching in Africa and beyond, Silva was a force for change in contemporary art.
A new museum in Morocco becomes a destination for contemporary art.
A new exhibition reveals a Kenyan photojournalist’s Pan-African vision.
An innovative book juxtaposes images from the archives of two South African families—one black, and one white.
Asserting black identity, photographers take center stage at a bold new museum.
How can listening to images reveal the visual histories of the African diaspora?
An intimate conversation with filmmaker Amelia Umuhire.
In searing and poetic images, Andrew Tshabangu chronicles Johannesburg in the age of democracy.
Two writers speak about the influential role—and responsibility—of art criticism in Africa today.
In a studio outside of Cape Town, photographer Nico Krijno refashions sculpture and performance.
Looking to vintage photos and alternative processes, an Angolan Portuguese artist engages the infinite possibilities of an image.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
