Can an Artists’ Collective in Africa Repair a Colonial Legacy? | The New Yorker

Can an Artists’ Collective in Africa Repair a Colonial Legacy?

Its founders believe that they can use the tools of the Western art world to help heal the effects of more than a century of plunder.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/can-an-artists-collective-in-africa-repair-a-colonial-legacy

He spent a couple of weeks parading through rubble and Chechen refugee camps, playing the part of the self-aggrandizing misery tourist, asking local women what they thought of him—was he handsome?—and filming their puzzled reactions