NEW FUTURES

Tracing how political pressure, ecological collapse,
and urgent questions of visibility and care are
reshaping the future

ART AFRICA / DIGITAL EDITION / ISSUE 26

Where Opacity
Holds the Light

FRAMER FRAMED / AMSTERDAM

Head of Research at Framer Framed Emily Shin-Jie Lee
reflects on how ‘Shapeshifters’ rethinks museological conventions,
foregrounds opacity and care, and gathers artists whose
practices challenge inherited colonial frameworks.

Portraiture, Politics,
and the Question
of Africa

Oluremi C. Onabanjo, The Peter Schub Curator in The Robert
B. Menschel Department of Photography at The Museum
of Modern Art, reflects on archives, authorship, and
Pan-African imagination in Ideas of Africa.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART / NEW YORK

Elemental Histories

Bringing together works that orbit around the sun as image, index,
and metaphor, curator Murtaza Vali offers a compelling lens
on ten years of experimentation at 421. SUN™ becomes
an elemental archive through which the region’s artistic
and ecological stories come into focus.

421 ARTS CAMPUS / ABU DHABI