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.
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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
“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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