Insistent Presence - Nagawa, Margaret; Alcauskas, Katherine
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"The definitive publication commemorating the Chazen Museum of Art's groundbreaking new collection of contemporary African art and its accompanying exhibition. Drawing on curator Okwui Enwezor and art historian Chika Okeke-Agulu's observation of an "insistent presence of the human figure in the work of contemporary African artists," Insistent Presence features writing by guest curator Margaret Nagawa that extends existing scholarship on African art. Nagawa's work explores how artists of today continue to leverage the image of the African body to negotiate issues of political and social power,…mehr

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"The definitive publication commemorating the Chazen Museum of Art's groundbreaking new collection of contemporary African art and its accompanying exhibition. Drawing on curator Okwui Enwezor and art historian Chika Okeke-Agulu's observation of an "insistent presence of the human figure in the work of contemporary African artists," Insistent Presence features writing by guest curator Margaret Nagawa that extends existing scholarship on African art. Nagawa's work explores how artists of today continue to leverage the image of the African body to negotiate issues of political and social power, identity, and belonging. With notions of the presence and absence of the human body as its organizing principle, this publication features forty-five works of sculpture, painting, ceramics, printmaking, and photography by twenty-four artists in three sections: "The Body in Society" explores identity in relation to others; "The Artist Is Present" portrays the body of the artist as a performer sharing their personal histories through theatrical performances, photography, and sculpture; and "The Absent Body" invokes only a mental image of the body through the depiction of accessories and accoutrements. Each section in Insistent Presence highlights twenty-first-century ways of being in the world and invites us to reflect on ourselves, our relationships, and the worlds we inhabit." -- Amazon.
Autorenporträt
Margaret Nagawa is a PhD candidate specializing in African art at Emory University. Her research centers on the intersectionality among visual, literary, and performance art and the interplay between so-called traditional and contemporary arts as sites for material experimentation. Nagawa studied painting and sculpture at the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and graduated with a first class honors degree. She attained her MA in curating from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, before working with the October Gallery in London, teaching and curating exhibitions at the Makerere Art Gallery, and leading several collaborative artists' initiatives in Uganda.