Eziokwu, Speaking Truths

Flower Boy - a celebration of outliers

We reflect on the exhibition Flower Boy which was a collaboration between Lagos-based Adebayo Oke-Lawal of Orange Culture and Arnhem-based photographer Sophie Vermeulen. We speak with them as well as with curator Jana Terblanche and performance artists Hermes Iyele about the power of collaboration, finding community and celebrating the outlier.

Unusual Suspects - the art of unique visual dialects

Eziokwu, Speaking Truths first episode looks back at the African Artists’ Foundation exhibition, Unusual Suspects which took place earlier in the year. In conversation with Ayanfe Olarinde, Luke Agada, Motlhoki Nono and one of the show's co-curators, Jana Terblanche, we discuss their varying modes of expression and how they reflect the vernaculars of identity in Africa and the diaspora. 

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Hi, this is Precious Mhone and welcome to Eziokwu, Speaking Truths. This bi weekly podcast presented to you by the African Artists’ Foundation is interested in exploring the intersection between art and contemporary African culture and the ways that it can shape self expression in our current moment. Through conversations with artists, curators and other cultural practitioners from various geographies across the African continent and the African diaspora, we unpack different forms of expression and the various ways we can reinterpret, reimagine and understand visual languages across Africa.