1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair focuses on Afro-Brazilian art

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returned to New York’s Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea for its 12th edition with 20 exhibitors from 12 countries, The Art Newspaper reports. A special section titled “Brazil Beyond Brazil,” organized by Brazilian art historian and curator Igor Simões, foregrounds Afro-Brazilian artists through ten artists and six galleries and builds on Simões’s 2023 São Paulo exhibition “Dos Brasis: Art and Black Thought.” Simões said the project addresses the relative absence of Afro-Brazilian artists in global African-diasporic discourse, despite Brazil being “the largest Black country outside the African continent.” Highlighted works include Luana Vitra’s “Geological suture 3” (2024), critiquing extractive mining practices in Minas Gerais, and Helô Sanvoy’s “Parabrigar” (2022), using materials associated with makeshift housing in Brazilian favelas.

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