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Ex-tensions, créations africaines et post-colonialisme


The conference Ex-Tensions: African Art and Forms of post-Colonialism will be taking a fresh look at preconceptions about current creative activity in Africa and the complex images of it propagated in the West.

There will be four avenues of exploration.

  • Art and theory «migrations» between Africa and the West, seen from the anthropological, historical and sociological points of view.
  • The engendering of new ways of thinking by the African diaspora in Europe and the United States, and in particular the post-colonial-inflected disciplines that have emerged from Cultural Studies
  • The visual arts, cinema and literature, which will testify to the richness of contemporary creativity in Africa.
  • Exhibition curators, directors of Contemporary Art biennials and movie producers will speak about the diversity of projects under way for production and dissemination of creative work from Africa


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Produced works

Manthia Diawara

  • Maison Tropicale, 2008
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Exhibition

Hard Rain Show

Ângela Ferreira

from 28 November 2008 to 1 February 2009