Art of Contemporary Africa

05/28/2026

Memory is not the past.
It is something we actively build — shaped by what we remember, what we forget, and what we choose to carry forward.
Memory in Motion invites us to reconsider our relationship with memory, not as something fixed, but as something continuously evolving.

05/28/2026

Memory in Motion introduces the work of Ayanda Mabulu — a participating artist in Memory in Motion: Identities, Materials and Resonances, a collective exhibition exploring themes of memory, identity, and material expression within contemporary African art.

Alongside fellow participating artists, Ayanda Mabulu contributes to a broader conversation around cultural resonance, transformation, and contemporary artistic practice across the continent.

Memory in Motion: Identities, Materials and Resonances
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🗓 2 May – 12 July 2026

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05/28/2026

Memory in Motion introduces the work of Ndabuko Ntuli — a participating artist in *Memory in Motion: Identities, Materials and Resonances*, a collective exhibition exploring themes of memory, identity, and material expression within contemporary African art.

Alongside fellow participating artists, Ndabuko Ntuli contributes to an ongoing dialogue around cultural resonance, transformation, and contemporary artistic practice across the continent.

Memory in Motion: Identities, Materials and Resonances
📍 AOCA
🗓 2 May – 12 July 2026

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05/28/2026

Memory in Motion introduces the work of Mederic Turay — a participating artist in Memory in Motion: Identities, Materials and Resonances, a collective exhibition exploring themes of memory, identity, and material expression within contemporary African art.
Through this exhibition, Turay joins a wider dialogue between artists whose practices engage with transformation, cultural resonance, and the evolving narratives shaping contemporary art across the continent.
Memory in Motion: Identities, Materials and Resonances
📍 AOCA
🗓 2 May – 12 July 2026
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05/28/2026

Memory in Motion introduces the work of Alexis Daniel Onguene Tassi — an artist participating in Memory in Motion: Identities, Materials and Resonances, a collective exhibition exploring themes of memory, identity, and material expression within contemporary African art.
Alongside fellow participating artists, Alexis Daniel Onguene Tassi contributes to a wider dialogue around cultural resonance, transformation, and contemporary artistic practice across the continent.
Memory in Motion: Identities, Materials and Resonances
📍 AOCA
🗓 2 May – 12 July 2026
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05/28/2026

Memory in Motion introduces the work of Ange Arthur Koua — an artist whose practice explores identity, memory, migration, and material expression through layered textiles and symbolic forms.
As part of this collective exhibition, Koua’s work contributes to a wider dialogue around how memory is carried, transformed, and reimagined through contemporary African art.
Memory in Motion: Identities, Materials and Resonances
📍 AOCA
🗓 2 May – 12 July 2026
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05/28/2026

There are moments in contemporary practice where material and meaning become
inseparable.
Franck Kemkeng Noah’s work sits precisely within this intersection.
Form is not simply aesthetic — it is conceptual. It carries weight beyond what is immediately
visible.
Within Memory in Motion, this becomes part of a larger dialogue:
How do materials transmit memory?
And how does that transmission shape the way we read the work itself?

05/25/2026

What happens between the work and the viewer is never neutral.
An exhibition is not only what is presented —
it is how it is encountered.
Movement through space.
Distance. Proximity. Pause.
Each decision shapes perception.
In Memory in Motion, the experience is not linear.
It unfolds differently for everyone who enters.

05/25/2026

Memory rarely moves in a straight line.

It does not progress neatly from past to present. Instead, it loops. It returns. It reappears in
fragments, often altered by time and context.

Opa Bathily’s work reflects this cyclical nature.
Through repetition, pattern, and form, his practice begins to mirror the way memory
behaves — not as something fixed, but as something that continuously revisits itself.

Within Memory in Motion, this becomes a crucial perspective.
Because memory is not something we
encounter once.

It is something we return to — again and again — each time reshaped by where we are now.

05/21/2026

Memory in Motion is now live for those unable to view this powerful exhibition in person.

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05/18/2026

Even after opening, an exhibition remains in motion.
The works may be fixed in place, but the experience is not.
Light shifts throughout the day. Viewers move through the space differently. Relationships between works emerge gradually.
In Memory in Motion, this ongoing evolution feels particularly significant.
Because the exhibition itself mirrors its central idea:
That meaning is not static.
It is shaped continuously — through context, through presence, through encounter.