‘In some countries like Uganda the change is happening for the worse, but in some, like Kenya, it is changing for the better.’ ‘The time is ripe to talk about homosexuality in Africa,’ Malinda said.
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‘Chuchu’s work speaks to a known past when the word ‘sodomy’ was unknown by us, and same-sex activities were an accepted preference,’ exhibition curator Ato Malinda told The Art Newspaper.įrench-Algerian artist Kader Attia will also screen an hour long video exploring the lives of transgender people in Algiers and Mumbai.
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Kenyan artist Jim Chuchu is showing three works from his ‘Pagan’ series which explores the idea that homophobia was exported to Africa by Western missionaries and colonists. Women are banned from smoking in public in Egypt and the conversations were recorded without sound to protect the women’s identities. is screening a video of herself interviewing a hundred women in Cairo about their sexualities while smoking with them. Nigerian photographer Andrew Esiebo will show his series of portraits of gay men in Lagos, while Egyptian-American video artist Amanda Kerdahi M. Muholi, a South African photographer, will show her series of portraits of black African lesbians and transgender women which she has been collecting since 2007. The exhibition is being held at Dakar’s Raw Material Company center and will feature works by artists Kader Attia, Andrew Esiebo, Zanele Muholi, Amanda Kerdahi M and Jim Chuchu.
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The 11th Biennale of Contemporary Art will bring an LGBTI themed art exhibition to the Senegalese capital Dakar from May when it hosts the exhibition ‘Precarious Imaging: Visibility and Media Surrounding African Queerness.’