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AKAA: Africa as a field of observation for mondialité

Contemporary Art | To think about contemporary Africa is to reflect on the extensive continent’s plurality through common values, apprehending it as a field of observation for mondialité or worldliness. AKAA (Also Known as Africa), a young fair dedicated to the African art scene, has presented its second edition positioning itself as a fertile ground for observing the continent’s transformations through the precursory prism of artistic creation.

Malala Andrialavidrazana, Figures 1889, Planisferio, 2015 © The artist
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Malala Andrialavidrazana, Figures 1889, Planisferio, 2015
© The artist

The pioneering concept of mondialité was created by West Indian poet Édouard Glissant. The author anticipated a new form of culture that would embrace the world’s diversities and specificities, as opposed to the mainstream culture produced by globalization. Nowadays Glissant’s thinking has gained more intensity and projection because of its relevant relation with Africa’s current reality and development.

The porosity between worlds and borders, time and space, is reflected in artistic practices that free themselves from post-colonial culture, positioning themselves in a reversed history : […]

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Malala Andrialavidrazana, Figures 1889, Planisferio, 2015 © The artist Jean-François  Boclé,The Tears of Bananaman, 2012 © The artist Emo De Medeiros, Points de Résistance, 2017 © The artist / Dominique Fiat, Paris Alice Pokuaa Opong © Artco  Gallery

Malala Andrialavidrazana, Figures 1889, Planisferio, 2015
© The artist

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