Black Atlantic Speaker Series
The Black Atlantic imaginary is restless and fluid, historically unsettled and unsettling, always looking above and beyond the present, which has historically been a space of suppression and stasis. In this series of talks, the AFI invites artists/architects whose work can be seen in light of this imaginative, shared space that is simultaneously ‘here’, ‘there’ and ‘everywhere’.
Olalekan Jeyifous
15 SEPTEMBER 2021
Olalekan Jeyifous received a BArch from Cornell University and is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited at venues such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, the MoMA, the Vitra Design Museum and the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain. >
Ibrahim Mahama
2 DECEMBER 2021
Ibrahim Mahama was born in Tamale, Ghana in 1987 where he currently lives and works. Mahama obtained an MFA in Painting and Sculpture in 2013 and a BFA in Painting in 2010 at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. His work was shown during the last 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in Italy All The World’s Futures curated by Okwui Enwezor in 2015. >