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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..
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Here is what our ‘(Memorie) In Ascolto [Listening Memories] looked like
On 23rd, 25th and 26th November our artistic project ‘(Memorie) In Ascolto‘, realised as part of the festival Futura Memoria e Contemporaneamente Roma 2019, dressed up the space ..
‘(Memorie) In Ascolto’ | Feed the memory, strengthen the memory, transmit the memory
Feed the memory, strengthen the memory, transmit the past, present and future memory. These are some of the watchwords of (Memorie) In Ascolto, the project realised as part of th..
Blue, purple, red | Women, blackness, injustice and revoultion in Mary Sibande’s Uk solo show
Colour is the visual perception of electromagnetic radiation within the visible spectrum. Intangible palette of our reality, colours fill our existence, feed our imagination, str..