Below are some of my artist highlights from the Venice Biennale this year. Each artist represented here profiles the experience of people of colour, simultaneously 'decentering' the Western canon so prevalent within the arts. The images selected make visible the 'Black body' in various environments and guises, and can be seen as drawing attention to the 'hyper-visibility' of the 'Black body' in society on the one hand, whilst on the other hand Black people have historically been rendered 'invisible' in art history. Njideka Akunyili Crosby Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Kudzanai Violet-Hwami Henry Taylor Khalil Joseph Tavares Strachan Henry Taylor
Kuandika is a swahili word and it means 'to write'. Art, Literature and Culture outside the Western canon = Kuandika blog spot. An intervention space within which I aim to make art work, literature and other cultural exploits which do not fit within the expected Western and European canon, more visible.