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Àsìkò’s visual representation of emotions | The personal becomes universal
Ade Okelarin is the London-born Lagos bred artist who goes by the name Àsìkò. Using photography, mixed media and film, his works explore complex, multidimensional themes such as ..
‘Fight’ | Gilone’s debut single is a call to stay true to one’s self
Gilone has a velvet voice that envelopes you like a blanket made of the softest feathers. It is a journey to the world of senses and emotions. Hers is a love poem for those who f..
In conversation with Enfant Précoce | From Parisian museums, to dance, to tatoo art
He was 24 years old when he started painting. His name is Francis Essoua Kalu, but people shall probably remember him as Enfant Précoce. He’s the nephew of the Cameroonian plasti..
Silvia Rosi is inverting the classic West African studio portrait to retell her family’s history
At first, an image by the London-based Italian-Togolaise artist Silvia Rosi might strike the viewer as eerily familiar, and yet somehow fresh: vintage and thoroughly contemporary..
‘INNER’ | Italian-Congolese producer BLCKEBY invites us to join his inner world
INNER, the debut album by BLCKEBY, better known as Marco Diamubeni, is certainly among the most captivating Italian music released amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many have prefer..
Four young women on ‘Summertime’’s representation, inclusion and advice for the next season
I belong to the Beverly Hills 90210 and Dawson’s Creek generation and even though I haven’t watched a teen drama for a few years, I didn’t want to miss Summertime for various rea..
Delphine Diallo | ‘I’ve become a better person, believing in women’
The Covid pandemic has forced many of us to be confined at home and take stock of our life. The dos and the don’ts, the many questions we ask ourselves are taking different shape..
Tiziana Manfredi recounts the recovery of Dakar’s newsreel archive
Tiziana Manfredi is a Genoese video artist we met last spring in Senegal during the tour of our contemporary dance and video art project Mirrors in sub-Saharan Africa. After a se..
The representation of Afro-descendants in Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku’s paintings
A few weeks ago the news of the event-piece Salvini Nero (Black Salvini) by Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku, one of the first Afro-descendants Italian artists in the Italian con..
Trap Bob | Fighting against discrimination through illustration
Tenbeete Solomon, better known as Trap Bob, is a visual artist, graphic artist, and illustrator. Creative director of the collective GIRLAAA, her work is committed to f..