A sullen look towards the camera, a veiled head….body painted in vertical lines along the edges…underexposure, a small fading —Kader Diaby’s series of photographs; Miria, iyé i yèrè gniniga evoke a deep gentle sadness. The Japanese have a term for this feeling; mono no aware —a transient sadness and a sensitivity towards ephemera. Miria, iyé…
Dadi is an Ivorian visual artist and creative director based in Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire. Nuits Balnéaires is his artist name — translating to seaside nights in English — and it is also his main project in development originally inspired by a poem he wrote. Balnéaires derives inspiration for his work through poetry, spirit of water,…
Living through historical moments has the special ability to make us contemplate our own impermanence. The impermanence of even the most character shaping moments — by virtue of them being moments — is Time’s threat to our wilting bodies. Hence, the social construction of legacy. We want to believe that we, or an extension of…
I’ve often thought—in some sense—that there is something in Ngadi Smart’s work and artistic practice that both says something about and disrupts tidy notions of home. Less so in the actual conceptual and material articulation of her work but more so in the human vessel the work is mediated through being Ngadi herself and the…
[H]ere is my oath as Editor: I swear to give artists an arena to express their stories and share their photography by providing them a home in print. To all those bold beings painting with light, I hope this finds you… Extract from Editor’s note of the first issue by founder (and Editor), Stephanie Blomkamp…
