Mor Faye: The Untitled Series. Skoto Aghahowa
Mor Faye: The Untitled Series Works on Paper, 1969-84 It’s been over twenty-five years since the 1991 landmark posthumous retrospective exhibition of Mor Faye’s work at Galerie 39 in Dakar, Senegal, and subsequent participation in “Fusion: West African Artists at the Venice Biennial” exhibition organized by the Museum for African Art, New York in 1993 that helped introduce his work to wider audiences around the world – this was a period when almost no one was familiar with his work or knew that Africa even had something called contemporary culture for that matter. Much has changed since then, and this exhibition allows us to re-engage with the works of Mor Faye, albeit, with fresh eyes, in the context of new realities surrounding the growing awareness of contemporary African art as well as the realization that histories of Modernism are constantly changing as its global breadth and local particularities are revealed. Also, Daka...