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Africa. Telling a world

Through photographs, paintings, installations, drawings and sculptures, Milan’s PAC continues its exploration of the continents following the route of art.

"Africa. Raccontare un mondo", veduta della mostra, PAC, Milano, 2017

With the exhibition “Africa. Telling a world, Milan’s PAC continues its exploration of the continents following the route of art, with a selection of artists and narratives that not only live and entrench their African roots in the world, but who and which also experience its Diaspora. Retracing the emergence of their diversity, the exhibition shows the universality of the contemporary Africa scene south of the Sahara.

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Defining Africa today means being able to recount it. In an equilibrium between Occidentalism and Africanism, post- colonialism and migration, contemporary African art in reality poses essential, political, economic, religious and gender questions that affect the future of one of the most complex areas on our planet.

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Through photographs, paintings, installations, drawings and sculptures, from public and private international collections, as well as videos and performances, 33 artists who embody and represent the multiplicity of their social contexts today, will offer visitors visual and narrative works which are sometimes apparently in contrast with each other. Frontiers of scientific thinking and the overcoming of technological boundaries; accounts of memory and its being surpassed; silences of the body and altars dedicated to the consumption of history; distortions of traditions and reconfigurations of myths; as well as unexpected transformations of the woman’s role and reinterpretations of an aesthetic of re-use, will define deserts and conurbations, densities and dilations of the non-linear languages of contemporary African art.

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until 11 September 2017
Africa. Raccontare un mondo
curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg
PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea
via Palestro 14, Milan

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Africa. Telling a world

Through photographs, paintings, installations, drawings and sculptures, Milan’s PAC continues its exploration of the continents following the route of art.

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