Un panorama exceptionnel de la photographie contemporaine africaine : 51 artistes, 300 photos. Loin d'une vision occidentale de l'Afrique lourde de stéréotypes, ce livre permet la découverte d'une scène extrêmement dynamique à travers 51 regards acérés sur les enjeux contemporains sociétaux, culturels, politiques et écologiques. Exposition aux Rencontres d'Arles du 29/06 au 22/09.
Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, this is an expressive exploration of Black popular culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious and politically urgent.
In the Black Fantastic assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. Neither Afrofuturism nor Magic Realism, but inhabiting its own universe, In the Black Fantastic brings to life a cultural movement that conjures otherworldly visions out of the everyday Black experience - and beyond - looking at how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender, identity and the body in the 21st century.
Transcending time, space and genre to span art, design, fashion architecture, film, literature and popular culture from African myth to future fantasies and beyond, this vital, timely and compelling publication is an expressive exploration of Black popular culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious and politically urgent.
