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Touria El Glaoui: in conversation with Folasade Ologundudu
On this episode, I’m joined by Touria El Glaoui as we discuss 1-54, the Contemporary African Art Fair she founded in 2013.
More than a decade later, Touria explains that she founded the fair in 2013 after seeing exceptional artists across Africa with little presence in Europe or the U.S., and after witnessing the structural hurdles her artist father faced getting institutional support abroad.
She argues the field has moved beyond needing to justify visibility—citing broad audiences and collectors—but now must prioritize permanence: institutional acquisitions, scholarship, archiving…
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