In his reading of select work by Samuel Fosso, Aimé Ntakiyica and Yinka Shonibare, Anthony Downey argues that the game of identity can be both played and yet simultaneously enlisted to question the demands of identity formation and the cultural politics surrounding it

The artist collective AfriCOBRA traces its history back to late 1960s Chicago, a time of social change and political upheaval. The ambitions of this loose association of artists was simple: to explore, develop, and perpetuate an approach to image making which would reflect and project the moods, attitudes, and sensibilities of African Americans independent of the aesthetic strictures of Eurocentric modalities

Adjectives and nouns constrain, so let's just agree that Colin Richards is Colin Richards. But still. In a welcome about- face, this vital theoretician, ranging art scholar and meticulous artist becomes the subject of words

Siemon Allen is a compulsive collector and archivist of South African ephemera. Displayed as large-scale visual and informational installations, Allen's self-described "collection projects" explore, amongst other things, the concept of identity-formation through displacement

Inge Beckmann, Sticky Antlers, Dawit L. Petros, Bronwyn Lace