‘Conversation: African Art as Philosophy’

4 Oct.'19
- 18:30

EXPO

Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Sindika Dokolo & Nadia Yala Kisukidi

African Art as Philosophy was a groundbreaking publication by philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne. In it, he critically engages with the ideas outlined by the Senegalese politician and cultural theorist Léopold Sedar Senghor who looks at African art as an emotional and spiritual force. This is where the artist Kendell Geers and the collector Sindika Dokolo found inspiration for their discussions about the art they selected for IncarNations: African Art as Philosophy. The exhibition is conceived as an immersive experience and a spiritual initiation. It offers the visitor a reading of African art through its spirituality rather than its aesthetic quality, origin, or ethnographic context, transcending stereotypical views of what is considered ‘African art’. 
A conversation between curator and art collector Sindika Dokolo, and philosophers Souleymane Bachir Diagne, and Nadia Yala Kisukidi in which they discuss the liberating power of such a philosophy.

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14 June'12 →
30 June'23

Afropolitan

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Location

Bertouille Rotunda

Rue Ravenstein 23 1000 Brussels

Language

  • French

In the framework of IncarNations & European Lab.

Registration via European Lab 4/10.

Main partner

  • Sindika Dokolo Collection