30 Sep

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Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo is a photographer based in Lawley, Johannesburg. He uses his family run shebeen as a studio in which to investigate themes of first-hand and generational trauma, violence and memory. Hlatshwayo has been growing increasingly curious in various materialities as a medium of expression....

16 Sep

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Labinjo’s large-scale figurative paintings often depict intimate scenes of historical and contemporary life, both real and imagined. Figures appear from personal and archival imagery that include family photographs, found images and historical material. She explores themes including but not limited to identity, power, Blackness, race,...

16 Sep

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Odette Casamayor-Cisneros explores the intersections of identification, diaspora, and Black consciousness as both writer and scholar. A professor of Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she is the author of Utopía, distopía e ingravidez, a critical study of post-Soviet Cuban narratives,...