Videozoom: Africana Womanism: A video art exhibition dedicated to women artists from Africa and its diaspora
“A new vision of African women through the artists’ eyes: learning to see differently means learning to see the world differently.”
Videozoom: Africana Womanism is a video art exhibition curated by Antonella Pisilli, presenting the practices of eight women artists from Africa and its diaspora: Nirveda Alleck, Nathalie Mba Bikoro, Rehema Chachage, Wanja Kimani, Michèle Magema, Fatima Mazmouz, Myriam Mihindou and Tabita Rezaire.
The project draws upon the concept of Africana Womanism, developed by Clenora Hudson-Weems, understood not simply as an extension of Western feminism but as a perspective grounded in the experiences, struggles, needs and aspirations of African women and women of the African diaspora.
Through video, performance, personal narratives and ritual practices, the artists explore identity, memory, gender, motherhood, migration, colonialism, spirituality, belonging and resistance. The female body becomes a political territory, an archive of memory and an instrument of transformation.
The works challenge the stereotypes through which African femininity has historically been represented, offering instead a plurality of experiences and perspectives. The artists reconstruct personal and collective genealogies, examine the relationship between tradition and contemporaneity, and make visible stories frequently excluded from dominant narratives.
The exhibition was conceived as an itinerant project travelling between Florence, Rome and Viterbo. It was presented at Le Murate Progetti Arte Contemporanea in Florence, in collaboration with Black History Month Florence; at the Casa Internazionale delle Donne in Rome; and at La Pensilina in Viterbo.
Videozoom: Africana Womanism was produced by Kyo Noir in collaboration with the Centro Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea Sala 1.
Curated by: Antonella Pisilli
Artists: Nirveda Alleck, Nathalie Mba Bikoro, Rehema Chachage, Wanja Kimani, Michèle Magema, Fatima Mazmouz, Myriam Mihindou and Tabita Rezaire.
