We call it “Africa”. Artists from sub-Saharan Africa

From 9 February to 2 April 2017, the Officine dell’Immagine gallery in Milan hosts the collective exhibition curated by Silvia Cirelli, WE CALL IT “AFRICA”. Artists from Sub-Saharan Africa, an exhibition entirely dedicated to the complex and multifaceted artistic panorama of the countries of the so-called Sub-Saharan Africa.

The choice of the title is provocatively to dwell on how many times a forced geographical or generational specificity is used, circumscribing or even worse "ghettoizing" a particular creative scene. WE CALL IT “AFRICA” therefore represents the attempt to explore the various and different "Africa", the countless cultural and aesthetic universes that populate this multifaceted panorama, emphasizing the relationship between art and contemporary society.

Dimitri Fagbohoun (Benin), Bronwyn Katz (South Africa), Marcia Kure (Nigeria) by Maurice Mbikayi (Democratic Republic of Congo) are the interpreters invited to tell, for the first time in Italy, the many contaminations in art of highly topical themes, focusing on sociocultural issues, identity and geopolitics, particularly representative of the complex African reality.