Aindrea Emelife
@aindrea
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Art Historian, Writer, Curator, Broadcaster 🖊 : The Guardian, The FT, Telegraph, Vanity Fair, Frieze, GQ 📺 BBC, Sky Arts #PublicRealmLDN
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Joined October 2008
Snapshots from my interview with @guardian regarding my appointment to the @MayorofLondon’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, my hopes for the future of Public Art and being the Commissions’s “youngest member” #PublicrealmLDN
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“Lagos is Calling.” In an art world landscape full of ‘Ones to Watch’, the historian and curator (and ELLE contributing editor) Aindrea Emelife is easily one of London’s most talked-about right now
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Aindrea Emelife grew up with no connections to the art world, but is now one of the youngest and brightest curators on the scene, bringing nigerian art to the venice Biennale and a new show at...
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For @InterviewMag, I interviewed @aindrea, the curator who will be hosting the second-ever Nigerian pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale. https://t.co/B5mymU30Mg
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"A lot of things have been very serendipitous," says Aindrea Emelife, the star curator and historian who's set to host the Nigerian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
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#BlackVenus is empowering, inspiring & thoughtful @aindrea @SomersetHouse exhibiting photographic artwork illustrating historical depictions of Black women and the caricaturing of the Black body. 🎨
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Congratulations to BLACK VENUS curator @aindrea who has been selected to curate the Nigerian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2024! 👏 https://t.co/Qw8MFh1HWt… Image (c) Enrico Fiorese
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I am so glad!
Unforgettable, powerful exhibit @MoADsf. You MUST see BLACK VENUS. Shattering. Empowering. Art challenges and can make you uncomfortable, pained and sometimes angry. All how I felt after BV. Absolutely necessary. In SF til Aug 20. https://t.co/yOqFmrnDHB
#BlackVenus @aindrea🙏🏿🖤
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Interview | The newly-appointed curator of Nigeria's forthcoming Edo Museum of West African Art @Aindrea Emelife on "the pursuit of a truly global art ecosystem"
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Scholar discusses restitution issue, saying that "no culture has an absolute view on looking at the world"
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"restitution is meaningless if it doesn’t catalyse and connect with the present and the future." Writing in @FT @aindrea considers the West African art scene & how the return of objects should mark the start, not the end, of a relationship. https://t.co/tEiEQTs1Df
#beninbronzes
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Restitution offers an opportunity for a new engagement by former colonial powers with the region’s rich cultural history
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Because of my work with cities like Freetown, Accra, Dakar and soon Abidjan, I was especially taken by this piece by @aindrea on the West Africa art scene and its legacy of creativity👇 https://t.co/UHiZ37CA30 She asks some very good questions:
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@aindrea just listening to your musings on LNL. DOTS on! 🌏#DemocracyOnTheStreets 🌎Connect the #DOTS 🐛🦋 https://t.co/GqAHe1uzZH
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Too much good stuff in 'Art as subterfuge' to parse. 👇🏽@aindrea, @slamup & @iampilato riff large on the power of ‘protest’ art to effect change. DOTS on @PhillipAdams_1! 🌏#DemocracyOnTheStreets 🌍Join the #DOTS 🐛🦋
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@LNLonRN @PhillipAdams_1 @slamup @iampilato @aindrea So good! Handprints as the first protest art, art as taboo breaker, backstory to ‘When We Say Black Lives Matter’, *and* the democratisation of protest art… All DOTS on! 🌎Connecting the #DOTS 🌏#DemocracyOnTheStreets 👉🏽 https://t.co/RE6IraNQOU
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Five highlights from Aindrea Emelife's exhibition, Black Venus 🌟
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📷#ArtIsAWeapon BLACK VENUS, curated by Aindrea Emelife (@aindreaemelife), “an exhibition that surveys the legacy of Black women in visual culture – from fetishized, colonial-era caricatures, to the present-day reclamation of the rich...
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📷#ArtIsAWeapon BLACK VENUS, curated by Aindrea Emelife (@aindreaemelife), "an exhibition that surveys the legacy of Black women in visual culture – from fetishized, colonial-era caricatures, to...
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"I want this exhibition to highlight the expanse that Black womanhood is." —Aindrea Emelife https://t.co/IY588TKBgJ
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The Fotografiska New York exhibition "Black Venus" features the works of artists like Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and more.
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★★★★★ "If we are to move towards a truly decolonised art world then we must realise that it should not require an artist to fit neatly or repeatedly into a category. Exhibitions like this show us how" #InTheBlackFantastic @GuardianCulture [@aindrea] https://t.co/KDYxFYsmCD
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Eleven contemporary artists inspired by Afrofuturism consider possible futures with a hopeful, fizzing energy
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“How do you create a sacred space?” – Curator @aindrea speaks to Chicago-based artist @TheasterGates on his recently opened @SerpentineUK Pavilion #BlackChapel realised in collaboration with @dadjaye. More here via @wallpapermag
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"Rather than simply putting forth a compelling grouping of contemporary talent, I wanted to establish a legacy." @FotografiskaNY curator Aindrea Emelife joins Amber Pinkerton and Renee Cox to explore the impact of Black women in art. Panel on 12 May: https://t.co/PaRgZueNGB
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“‘Black Venus’, curated by Aindrea Emelife & on view at Fotografiska New York, is a cross-generational survey of the Black female body. Through the work of 17 international artists, the show captures a complex past and reclaimed present.” @aindrea
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‘Black Venus’, curated by Aindrea Emelife and on view at Fotografiska New York, is a cross-generational survey of the Black female body. Through the work of 17 international artists, the show...
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Eye-opening Friday listening: the brilliant Esi Edugyan discussing her essay collection #OutOfTheSun with art historian @aindrea on the @intelligence2 podcast. https://t.co/EMltwIulrg
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Podcast Episode · Intelligence Squared · 22/02/2022 · 43m
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