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Nancy Dantas: in conversation with Folasade Ologundudu
In this episode, I speak with Nancy Dantas, curator and art historian, and this year's curator of the modern section at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair.
Dantas shares how her archival research led her to view curating as an act of "active listening," framed by Miriam Makeba’s song "West Wind." She delves into how African modernism challenges Eurocentric categories—drawing inspiration from the 1966 Dakar exhibition "Tendencies and Confrontations"—and emphasizes the importance of understanding modernism through African intellectual and aesthetic frameworks like Sankofa philosophy.
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