ArT ACROSS BORDERS

Sponsored by Afreximbank

we are where we think (we are)

The 5th iteration of the Art Across Borders (AAB) exhibition explores decoloniality through regional artistic perspectives, centering Pan-African approaches to perception and location. Taking its title as both provocation and proposition, it materializes local and embodied expressions of decoloniality across Africa and its diaspora.

Through installation, photography, time-based media, and personal objects, the exhibition opens a dialogue between artist and audience: How do we build a home for us, by us? How do we harness a multiplicity of perceptions? How do we bridge present realities with layered histories - from colonial cartographies to post-independence dreams and today’s contradictions - while resonating with the diaspora?

At its heart, the artists’ acts of space and place-making assert personal agency as a force for accountability, imagination, and solidarity. Together, these works reconsider belonging and envision shared futures across Africa and its diaspora.

Participating artists include: 

Edson Chagas (Angola) | Central Africa with Stevenson Gallery (South Africa), Mário Macilau (Mozambique) | East Africa with Ed Cross Gallery, Nicène Kossentini (Tunisia) | North Africa, with Selma Feriani Gallery (Tunisia), Fatoumata Diabaté (Mali) | West Africa, Kudzanai Chiurai (Zimbabwe) | Southern Africa with Goodman Gallery (South Africa), Camille Chedda (Jamaica) | Caribbean with The Olympia Gallery (Jamaica)

Jumoke Sanwo, 2025.