FOR WHOM?
Event for youth and adults.
ACCESSIBILITY
More information: dostepnosc@ethnomuseum.pl; tel. 502 955 534 (text messages too).
ABOUT EVENT
Curators Amy N. Muhoro and Malaika Nabila will guide you through the new temporary exhibition „Afrotopias”. As the curatorial team says, this exhibition was created out of the need to tell „something we still know very little about” – about real, contemporary Africa, a place of many cultures, histories, traditions and communities. The museum gives the floor to African artists, originating and living in Togo, Niger, Mali and Kenya among others, to tell you about their continent from a perspective that we will not learn about in travel magazines or news services.
GUIDE
Amy N. Muhoro is a Kenyan multidisciplinary artist, cultural researcher, and exhibition curator. Her work focuses on the intersections of history and culture and the role they have played in people’s lives throughout history. Using and combining a variety of media, she primarily examines the impact of globalization on the history of communities, communication systems, and contemporary identities, particularly on the African continent and in African diasporas. She works with local communities to highlight voices that are often overlooked or marginalized in mainstream discourse. Her work has been exhibited at Creatives Garage Arts Trust and the Goethe Institut (Nairobi, Kenya), as well as at the Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw), the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and the WRO Art Center (Wrocław).
Malaika Nabila is a visual artist from Togo, author of cultural projects and curator of exhibitions. Among other projects, she is a co-founder of the Togo Yeye project, which aims to create works that empower Togolese youth, document their activities, and support creative communities in Togo and the diaspora. As part of the Blacklines project, she develops traditional West African textile dyeing techniques such as batik, indigo, and bogolan. Nabila’s mission is to protect the locality of traditional textile production while preserving the rich cultural heritage and supporting the economic development of her country. Malaika Nabila has participated in the organization of festivals and residencies in Lomé, Togo, and Lagos, Nigeria.
BUY A TICKET!
Partnerem wydarzenia jest Instytut Adama Mickiewicza.
The event partner is Adam Mickiewicza Institute.
