HCMC – “Encounter” Presents Lectures by N’Goné Fall on African Contemporary Art

Pan African Dreams: Thu 27 Aug 2015, 6.30 pm
Exploring African History, Geography and Politics through art projects: Fri 28 Aug 2015, 6.30 pm
Marie Curie Room – 6th Floor
Hoa Sen University

From the organizer:

In her first talk, curator N’Goné Fall will describe the culture and contemporary art of Africa through the dream of an integrated continent – “a site of negotiation” for various, complex cultures. Africa has 54 countries, all but Ethiopia have suffered from colonial domination. After multiple annexations by the colonial powers, Africa has undergone geographical fragmentation, its countries using arts and culture as a tool for nation building and continental integration. Many intellectuals have been implementing the Pan-African ideology in their artistic productions – the intercontinental ideology and movement within Africa. From such inspiration, N’Goné will present emblematic artists who used Pan Africanism as a concept as well as some of the art projects that she and her colleagues have realised in Dakar (Senegal) to look at the countries and the continent through the prism of history, geography and politics.

In the second lecture, curator N’Goné Fall will share with the audience the antecedents, challenges, and stakes of African contemporary art. The continent’s culture has always been viewed under “African stereotype”, especially those imposed from Western perspectives. This obsolete “heritage” burdens and hinders the artistic and cultural producers. Then what would they do? N’Goné will present a series of profound and interesting examples by artists from diverse African countries, ones who reflect the history, the present and the future of Africa through visual art. Their projects are not confined within the boundaries of modernism but live, move, and breath with the contemporaneity.

*Entrance is free. English – Vietnamese translation will be provided.

N’Goné Fall participates in “Encounter”, a lecture series which is part of a large artistic endeavour called “Conscious Realities”, initiated and organized by San Art in partnership with Prince Claus Fund.