The AKAA is a genuine ecosystem of Africa-based creation. Its founder, Victoria Mann, talks about it with a freshness that does much for the contemporary art scene.
What do you mean, exactly, by the "Sud Global" ("global South") notion defining the ADN of AKAA? We want to draw a new contemporary art map, putting forward various South-South axes starting from the African continent, rather than the North-South concept that is usually and largely the case. If you look at the artists involved, many come from Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, the US, the Caribbean and even Asia (a Korean artist doing a residency in South Africa). Their work results from the meeting of different cultures. These crossover attitudes are what interest us and make us stand out from…
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