
Regarding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro-Futurism

This large-scale group exhibition presents art being made today in, or about, Africa, from an Afro-futurist perspective that challenges traditional divisions: fantasy, imagination and cosmology, usually associated with past mythology, are incarnated into science fiction and futurist representation. The various narratives span between colonialism and its ramifications to a re-examination of the African body, landscape and culture—through utterances that shatter the usual distinction between truth and fiction, between myth and science, between technology and spirituality.

Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, From the series "Musclemen", 2012
C-print
Courtesy of the artist and Jack Bell Gallery, London
Catalogue courtesy of Naomi and David Kolitz
Exhibition courtesy of Barbara Toll, The Evelyn Toll Family Foundation