Transatlantic Connections

© Gabriela Salgado

Transatlantic Connections é o projecto  que propõe uma investigação das ligações históricas e das potencialidades da interacção entre África e a América Latina, direccionado para as práticas artísticas contemporâneas. 

The role played by artists from non-western countries in challenging the spaces of visibility and the lack of connection between cultures that have a great deal in common must not be underestimated. The South has the potential to provide an active levelling in a moment where international markets and institutions are both avid to exploit and positively include other cartographies in their game. In the case of Dak’art, a Biennale conceived as a Pan African event twenty years ago, there is an apparent vacuum in terms of the Latin American presence, given that the concept of diaspora generally involves only the English and French speaking Caribbean and North America. Additionally, with the intensification of interest in African art, transatlantic connections should become more common, as artists in other regions of the world are becoming curious of the phenomenon and willing to explore what is being done in Africa.

Palavras de Gabriela Salgado, curadora argentina residente em Londres, que explica o projecto, em entrevista ao C&