This curatorial exhibition aims to bring together African artists whose practices move through ancestral memory, spirituality lineage and the living archive. It considers how contempoary art functions as a vessel between ancestral resonance and a space of renewal. Here this history is not only seen as a safegaurd but also reshapes the way in which African artists have reimagined and created a space of belonging. These African artists confine Eurocentric frameworks, offering African art as an evolving practice that is spiritually rooted.

 

This exhibition affirms that African contemporary art is not fixed in time, through painting and photography these artists engage with the archive as both a personal and collecting, tangible and intangible, material and immaterial. Their body of work reference a sense of belonging, spiritual lineage, colonial past and everyday strategies or survival and adaptation. In doing so, art becomes a visual language of continuity, preserving memory, while creating space that resists erasure and invites transformation...