Guests during opening cocktail party
Curator Solange Farkas and artist Moussa Sene Absa
Installations Canoa quebrada and Hidden pages, stolen bodies by António Ole
Installations Canoa quebrada and Hidden pages, stolen bodies by António Ole
Mario Cravo Neto’s installation Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Detail of Mario Cravo Neto’s installation Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Installation Outros Navios, by Eustáquio Neves
Audience visiting Eustáquio Neves’ Outros Navios
Daniel Lima’s installation Coluna Laser III - Mar
Daniel Lima’s installation Coluna Laser III - Mar
Nesting, detail of the piece by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons’ video installation Threads of Memory
When I Am Not Here. Estoy Allá, a piece by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Pape Seydi’s photography Mélodie
Ladies, photography by Fatou Kandé Senghor
Matar Ndour’s photography Rufisque
Joel Zito Araújo, Filhas do vento, 2004. Film, 85'
Pierre Yameogo, Moi et mon blanc, 2003. Film, 90'
Moussa Sene Absa, Madame Brouette, 2002. Film, 104'
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Abouna, 2002. Film, 81'
Abderrahmane Sissako, En Attendant le bonheur – Heremakono, 2002. Film, 95'
Frédéric Savoye and Wolimité Sié Palenfo, Memoire entre deux rives, 2002. Video, 90'
General Curatorship by Solange Farkas
2005 | Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia and Sala Walter da Silveira - Salvador, BA
More than just a physical element, the ocean that separates us from Africa is also a guardian of history, and a link between the two continents. The Atlantic Ocean, a slave trade route through which millions of Africans were forced to come to the American continent, was the starting point for the curatorship of the Mostra Pan-Africana de Arte Contemporânea (Pan-African Exhibition of Contemporary Art). The curatorship proposed dialogue and interchange between Brazil and the artistic output of African countries and of Afro-descendants. The exhibition was comprised of three categories – visual arts, thought, and cinema. The event took place at Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (Bahia Museum of Modern Art) and at Sala Walter da Silveira (Walter da Silveira Salon), representing the diversity of art work and ideas both from Africa and the Black Diaspora nations.