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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..
‘Dancing at Dusk’ | 38 dancers from 14 African countries restage Pina Bausch’s ‘The Rite of Spring’
A beach of white sand. The light bleaching from the sky. A girl lying on a red cloth. An eerie bassoon piercing the silence. This is the way in which audiences get their first gl..
Browncoffeemoka celebrates ‘Moindo eza kitoko’
Black is beautiful, in Lingala Moindo eza kitoko. A few words which are music to our ears. And yet, they bear the suffering of peoples from all around the world who are still per..
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..
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..
Coronavirus | What is the challenge ahead? We don’t know, but we are ready
Social media gave us the opportunity to be everywhere. GRIOT’s founder, editors and partners are based in Italy, the UK and Germany. But GRIOT was founded in Rome, Italy. Most of..
Biennials and Triennials to visit in 2020
It’s time for biennials, triennials and art fairs. Here is our selection of art events to keep an eye on—and to put in your diary.
The Stellenbosch Triennale, 11 February – 30..
MOTHERLAND ▷ Sasha Huber
Sasha Huber is a Swiss Haitian Finnish visual artist born in Zurich, living and working in Helsinki. Part of the Finnish group show SuomIngorgo, curated by Krista Eirene Mikkola ..
‘The New Black Vanguard’ | Antwaun Sargent on the visual vocabulary redefining the fashion industry—and society
Many years ago, on a very hot afternoon, I was enjoying a stracciatella gelato at the ice cream parlour Fior di Latte in Pétion Ville (Haiti), when my brother looked at me and s..
Imprisonment, identification and identity in Fiamma Montezemolo’s ‘Entanglements’
According to nineteenth-century criminologist Cesare Lombroso’s 1876 work Criminal Man—original title, L’Uomo Criminale—the tattooed XIX century man was ancestrally predisposed t..