Speaking of Art
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 12: Backstory: Volcanique (1985) by Mohamed Melehi
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Morad Montazami elaborates on the significance of Volcanique (1985) by Mohamed Melehi, and explains how the artwork manifests the ethos of Casablanca ...
Episode 11: Casablanca Art School: The Making of an Artistic Revolution
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What role have artists played in dismantling colonial infrastructures? In what ways have they contributed to creating new platforms in the postcolonia...
Episode 10: Backstory: River In An Ocean: 6 (1993)
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Natasha Ginwala as she explores one of Lala Rukh’s works from her iconic series, River In An Ocean, and how it captures the diverse rhythms of ...
Episode 09: Lala Rukh: The Known and the Unknown
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lala Rukh was one of the most significant artists of her generation. Her practice encompassed drawing, printmaking, photography and video, developed a...
Episode 08: Backstory: Untitled (2023)
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Elizabeth Giorgis as she tells us about some of the symbols and imagery that appear in Melkamzer’s paintings, such as faces, vines, suns and mo...
Episode 07: Henok Melkamzer: Telsem, Tradition and Modernity
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do artistic practices traverse across generations? How do they continue to address critical conditions in our present moment? In our latest episod...
Episode 06: Backstory: Untitled (1990)
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Backstory, curator and art historian Salah Hassan elaborates on the historical significance of Untitled (1990), a painting by Gavin...
Episode 05: Gavin Jantjes: Agent of Change
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does a sustained engagement with art and activism allow for? How can radical cultural practice forge solidarities across different communities, g...
Episode 04: Backstory: Zanzibar
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join curator Omar Kholeif as he walks us through the formal and contextual dimensions of a newly imagined presentation of ‘Zanzibar’ (1998–2023)...
Episode 03: Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska: Synchronicities
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do visual and sonic forms shape our understanding of a place? How do memories unfold when we encounter these forms in new configurations? In this ...
Episode 02: Backstory: Leave to Cool
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Backstory explores the story behind an artwork, including its conception, context and meaning in the world. Join curator Omar Kholeif as he speaks abo...
Episode 01: The Diasporic Imagination
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do the concepts of home, longing and belonging resonate through works by artists Etel Adnan, Lubaina Himid, Rashed Aereen and Saloua Rouda Choucai...