This is the last one!
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We are all fed up with what is going on and we refuse to talk about it. The art space is failing because it’s not reflecting the attitude and experiences of the people in it. It has become this elitist space for flexing how much money you have and cool your taste is. Regular people can’t relate to what artists are doing both in language and practice. Please Get serious.
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If you’re interested in following up with his story, this is his account! @ibrahimmahama3 I discovered him through his “Parliament of Ghosts”. I remember thinking yes! This is what we should be doing as artists. The brutality he faced is utterly shameful and at the same time regular. How pitiful is that?
If we do not let each know other about the impacts of our actions we would all continue to think that we are doing alright. Our African leaders are a reflection of us. They act in the ways that we permit. If they aren’t called out, what we say is that “this is ok”
Personally, I have found abstract art to be inaccessible and elitist. I have to know so much art history to understand why this paint splatter is different from that one? If I don’t appreciate it then I am ignorant? I beg to differ… I guess this is the self-taught artist in me talking. Anyway, I wasn’t even trying to come for abstract art, there’s no best way to make art. We should all create whatever our soul moves us to. I am just tired of idea that abstraction is some kind of artistic maturity. Bruh!
Here is an excerpt from Fanon’s Weetched of the Earth, “in capital societies, education, whether secular or religious, the teaching of moral reflexes handed down from father to son, the exemplary integrity of workers decorated fifty years of loyal and faithful service, the fostering of love for harmony and wisdom, those aesthetics forms of respect for the status quo, instilling in the exploited a mood of submission and inhibition which considerably eases the task of the agents of law and order”
Georgina Ribas
oil on Canvas
2024
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Georgina de Carvalho Ribas (1882 - 1951) was a Portuguese-Angolan artist and activist who led organizations championing black and feminist movements in the 20th century in Portugal, such as the African National Party, the Ké-Aflikana Guild, also known as African Guild and the African Women Movement. She was a music teacher musicologist with the piano as her instrument.
~ Black History studies - Lisbon.
This is not about nationality. If we were to speak about nationality we would have already fallen into a system trap. Nationality in Africa and the Americas is after all a European device to control and sow doscord.
✨Artist Spotlight ✨
Meet Brian Amadi one of the incredible artists showcasing in the Arts for Equity exhibition.
This exhibition has been shaped through listening—listening to artists, to communities, and to the lived experiences that too often sit at the margins of institutional spaces. We invite you to spend time with their work, to listen closely, and to carry these conversations forward.
📍Catch their work in the Arts for Equity exhibition from February 13th - March 7th at 235 Water Street Gallery and stay tuned as we continue celebrating the amazing artists who make this project possible.
This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada. Ce
projet a été rendu possible en partie grâce au gouvernement du Canada.
#ArtsForEquity #ArtistSpotlight #BIPOCartistsNL #CommunityArts #GCAntiRacism
I hope this gives you the confidence to speak up or ask the questions that have followed you all your life. The confidence to claim an ancestry that has been reduced to superstition
