Contemporary African Art

"Painted across the long rains of 2024, Songs of the Iroko begins with the artist's grandmother — a woman who spoke to trees the way others speak to elders."

"Mokoena began this work after spending six months mapping the routes her family travelled during the forced removals of the 1960s."

"El Sayed's Nile Geometries returns to the mathematical logic of Cairene mashrabiya screens — not as ornament, but as an argument about light, privacy and the female interior across the modern Arab city."

"Mupfumira carves from a single block of Zimbabwean springstone, in the direct lineage of the Tengenenge masters — a monumental figure that reads as ancestor before it reads as sculpture."