I love the artwork that is coming out of Africa and its diaspora. And this edition of 1 54 Contemporary Art Fair is no exception. Featuring the likes of Lulama Wolf, Aplerh Doku Borlabi and Jared McGriff, the fair shows that diversity is at the heart of its existence. Meeting of the Wildflowers shows the cerebral ingenuity of its subject matter. Poised and elegant it speaks wonders to the gentlemen rendered. Mmangaliso Nzuza's The Possibility of Change, displays the choices we are presented with, one each swelling with opportunity. This figurative work shows a woman with a door not knowing what's behind it. Slightly abstracted it ponders her fate.
1 Aplerh Doku Borlabi, Okuntakinte, 2022
2 Jared McGriff, Meeting of the Wildflowers, 2023,
3 Lulama Wolf, Nomalizo, 2023, South African
4 Dawit Abebe, Hands Matter No.10, 2023, Ethiopian
5 Malick Welli, Untitled, 2017, Senegalese
6 Mobolaji Ogunrosoye, Portraits, 2023, Nigerian
7 Mmangaliso Nzuza, The Possibility of Change, 2023, South African
8 Salifou Lindou, Trois potes dans le bruit, 2022
9 Saidou Dicko, Untitled 2023, Burkina Faso
10 Dindga McCannon, Pat is Pregnant, 1977
11 Tigist Yoseph Ron, Before Shabat, 2023, Ethiopian
12 Option Nyahunzvi, Deja vu, 2022
13 Ngimbi Luve Bakambana, Nanga Boko 2, 2019, Congolese
14 Ronald Hall, Madams of the Black Ether, 2023
15 Mous Lamrabat, Brozart, 2019, Belgian
Amadou Sanogo, La corde a sauter, 2021, Malian
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