African Art Online: a series of online exhibitions of emerging African artists

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Register for the Artist’s Dialogue – Feb 22 at 12 PM EST

Kinshasa-based photographer Rachel Malaika creates images that evoke layers of Congolese history and challenge Congolese structures of power. Her dramatically staged photographs draw viewers’ attention to the value of Congolese culture and to the importance of preserving elements of the past. In this series of photographs, Malaika uses masks, bodies, and ruins to recall and reimagine the long, despotic rule of Mobutu Sese Seko, president of what is today the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 1965 until 1997. Register for online dialogue HERE.

This project is part of ASC’s African Art Online series, a title VI-funded activity for the online exhibitions of emerging African artists. Curated by the University of North Carolina African Studies Center.