“At the end of the 1990s, as a result of the diasporas produced by new wars and new forms of colonialism, boats, rubber dinghies, and wornout ships started sailing in the direction opposite to that of colonial times: people emigrating from North Africa steered toward the closest Mediterranean shores, especially to the Italian island of…
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┐ La Guerre au Mali… lost for words └
photo caption (above): FP/Getty Images: ISSOUF SANOGO How deceiving pictures can be. This is: Two young fighters of the Islamist group Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) walk in the streets of Gao on July 17, 2012. A group of armed youths has arrived in Gao from Burkina Faso, joining hundreds of…
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┐ Jason Florio └
© Jason Florio, KNLA – Karen National Liberation Army freedom fighter (left) + KNLA fighter carrying wood (right), from the series Burma, from the project Blackout History © Jason Florio, Karen Civilians, from the series Burma, from the project Blackout History © Jason Florio, KNLA – Karen National Liberation Army cook with bamboo water jugs…
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┐ Ian van Coller └
© Ian van Coller, Daisy Angy Kekae (left), from the series Collage Portraits, 2009 “This series combines several influences that have personally been relevant to my art-making process. The work grew out of my experimentation with the use of quilting techniques based on traditions from Africa and Gees Bend, Alabama as a way to tell…
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┐ Zanele Muholi #2 └
photo catpion (above) © Zanele Muholi, Lesedi Modise, Mafikeng, North West, 2010, from the series Faces and Phases “In the face of all the challenges our community encounters daily, I embarked on a journey of visual activism to ensure that there is black queer visibility. Faces and Phases is about our histories and the struggles…
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┐ Carrie May Weems └
© Carrie May Weems, Untitled, from African Jewels, 2009 © Carrie May Weems, Untitled, from African Jewels, 2009 installation view from African Jewels, 2009 Carrie’s web home here
Read More┐ Julian Röder – Exit Africa └
or how I would call it: Turned by love: the ignorance and fragility of a national socialist mind. I can´t recall whose phrase this is but it goes something like this: Ignorance can be overcome by reading and racism is overcome by traveling. I agree, it can be as simple as that. @ Julian Röder,…
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N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 