As Terras do Fim do Mundo at the Walter Collection, NYC, essay by Lydie Diakhaté in Jo Ractliffe: Photographs 1980s–Now, Steidl/The Walter Collection, Neu-Ulm and New York, March 2021. The first comprehensive overview of South African photographer Jo Ractliffe’s politicized landscape portrayals.
Author: Lydie Diakhaté
Film Producer & Director, Curator for Art Programs, and Art critic
Lydie Diakhaté is a Film Producer and Curator for art exhibitions and cultural programs. She produces and disseminates African and African Diaspora films and other arts. Co-founder of the Real Life Documentary Festival in Accra from 2006 to 2011, she has worked with prestigious partners from Europe, Africa and the US.
(T)HERE: A Global Festival of Arts, Culture, & Ideas Celebrating Benin
A three day festival & conferencedevotedto the culture and history of Benin and introducing Purchase’s international commitments across all schools and areas, will take place September 27-28-29, 2018 at The Performing Arts Center(PAC), The Neuberger Museum of Art, and other campus venues.All the events will be open to the general public. Honoring Angelique Kidjo Fostering collective and collaborative… Continue reading (T)HERE: A Global Festival of Arts, Culture, & Ideas Celebrating Benin
Collector’s choice: Abidjan in the 1970’s, Paul Kodjo photographs the Ivorian Miracle
A photo exhibition curated by Isabel Wilcox and Lydie Diakhaté at the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York – May 2019. Formally trained in photography and cinematography in Abidjan and Paris, and through a correspondence course with the New York Institute of Photography, Paul Kodjo pushed the boundaries of African traditional studio photography. Kodjo’s… Continue reading Collector’s choice: Abidjan in the 1970’s, Paul Kodjo photographs the Ivorian Miracle
L’Allée de la Reine, a series of monumental sculptures by Diagne Chanel
L’Allée de la Reine an installation of a series of sculptures in wood by Diagne Chanel, displayed at the Dakar City Hall garden, during the Dak’Art Biennale (May/June, 2016). Diane Chanel is a painter and sculptor. Her work addresses the political and social problems of the African continent. Diagne Chanel studied art at Ecole Nationale… Continue reading L’Allée de la Reine, a series of monumental sculptures by Diagne Chanel
Photo Exhibition: Amaniè, What’s New?
Amaniè, What's New? A photography and video exhibition by Carlos de Jesus and Claude Oudey, curated by Lydie Diakhaté. Location: NYU | Kimmel Windows La Guardia Place and West 3rd Street, New York NY 10012 Kimmel Vitrines, NYU (Street Level Windows) September 7th - October 18th, 2017 Amanié, What's New? is a photography and video exhibition by… Continue reading Photo Exhibition: Amaniè, What’s New?
“Some Bright Morning: The Art of Melvin Edwards,” a documentary by Lydie Diakhaté
The film reveals how the African American sculptor Melvin Edwards, nowadays a worldwide recognized artist, has established along 5 decades his own artistic language.----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Synopsis Born in the South of the US in the late 30’s, during the segregation, nowadays the sculptor Melvin Edwards is a worldwide recognized artist. As black internationalist, pan-Africanist, and… Continue reading “Some Bright Morning: The Art of Melvin Edwards,” a documentary by Lydie Diakhaté
Selected articles
Art critic specializing in the arts and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora Lydie Diakhaté has written for various magazines and newspapers. “Melvin Edwards and the Poetic of a Blacksmith,” Wasafiri Magazine, Routledge (August 2015); “Jo Ractliffe, Photographer from South Africa”, NKA, Spring 2012. “Salif Traoré, photographe sans frontière / Photographer without borders”, in Salif… Continue reading Selected articles
Negritude: A Dialogue between Wole Soyinka and Senghor
A Documentary directed by Manthia Diawara (52 mins.,France/USA/Germany/Portugal,2015) This imagined dialogue between Leopold Sedar Senghor, one of the founding fathers of Negritude, and Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, probes the relevance of the concept of Negritude, against the views of its many critics, not only to the decolonization and independence movements of the 1950s and 1960s,… Continue reading Negritude: A Dialogue between Wole Soyinka and Senghor
“Melvin Edwards and the Poetic of a Blacksmith”
Published in Wasafiri Magazine, Routledge (August 2015) Essay about the renowned African-American sculptor Melvin Edwards.Edwards is a pioneer and prominent artist in the history of contemporary African American art and American sculpture. Drawing upon African sources as well as the western modernist tradition of welded steel sculpture, Melvin Edwards has created a profound and beautiful body… Continue reading “Melvin Edwards and the Poetic of a Blacksmith”
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