Exhibition

Aliya Logun: Portraiture of Black Youth - A Time Capsule of Infinite Possibilities

Information

  • Date

    October 25, 2024 - January 19, 2025
  • Location

    Art Gallery of Alberta

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.