Join Yar Anyieth and Liisa Otchie from the Africa Centre for a conversation with Aliya Logun, the artist behind the exhibition Portraiture of Black Youth - A Time Capsule of Infinite Possibilities.
Copies of the corresponding publication that includes an essay on Logun’s work written by the Africa Centre will be available for $5.
The exhibition will open immediately following the conversation.
Refreshments available for purchase.
About Aliya Logun: Portraiture of Black Youth - A Time Capsule of Infinite Possibilities:
The Africa Centre has envisioned this exhibition as a time capsule representing the infinite nature of youth self-expression. In a world of countless possibilities, people on the margins often find themselves boxed into limiting stereotypes. Through Black portraiture by the artist Aliya Logun, this exhibition asks, “can blackness, Black bodies, and Black identity really be defined?”
This exhibition is a message for the future. If, 100 years from now, historians ask what Black youth were like at this moment, from this exhibition they would see that we were everything and anything.
Organized by the Africa Centre and the Art Gallery of Alberta. Curated by the Africa Centre. The RBC New Works Gallery features new artworks by Alberta artists and continues the Art Gallery of Alberta’s tradition of supporting and promoting Alberta artists.
