BY BEATHUR MGOZA BAKER AND IMRAAN JEEVA

July 4 – September 12, 2020
Madlozi Art Gallery (online exclusive)

In the wake of ongoing race-based police brutality, and the institutionally sanctioned killing of Black people this project is a response from artists from Africa and across the Black and African Diaspora supporting social justice movements in the United States, as a conscious intervention reclaiming and affirming Black bodies and lives universally.

‘BE REAL BLACK, FOR ME’ is an exhibition of contemporary art curated as an intervention and dialogue across continents paying homage to Black bodies as sites of healing, resilience, resistance, and love – not public spectacle, trauma and hatred.

Madlozi Art Africa presents an exhibition of visual art online in solidarity with courageous political and social justice movements like Black Lives Matter.

At its heart the exhibition poses questions around race and the violence of racism, its residues and stains. The narrative closely interrogates this significant moment of struggle living under siege, and caught between two life-threatening viruses. Both make breathing-while-Black a perilous act of survival. The exhibition supports the call for racial justice and an end to anti-Black racism. It asks us to embrace not only our vilified bodies and Blackness, and to heal so we can fight another day, stronger.

Participating artists from Africa, the United States, & Caribbean include:

Patrick Earl Hammie, Lisolomzi Pikoli, Williams Chechet, Nathalie Djakou Kassi, Priya Green, Johnson Uwadinma, Serge Diakota, Louis Oke-Agbo, Muzi Ndlela, Saleh Lo, Gadi Ramadhani, Lateef Olajumoke, Nu Barreto, Andrae Green, David Chinyama, Vincent Osemwegie, Skumbuzo `Skubalisto’ Vabaza, Va-Bene Fiatsi, Linda Sangaret, Yvanovich Mbaya, Washington Kirika