[:en]Omar Victor Diop – Liberty/ Diaspora – 11 August 2018[:]
At an exhibition of African photographs (Liberty/ Diaspora) by Omar Diop at Autograph. Inadvertently the exhibition confirmed a critical problem facing the Arts of Africa and the diaspora but particularly of Africa. We have lost our visual language and many of our artists have succumbed to the myth that western visual language is universal. As a consequence they struggle to find a way to speak. Over and again they find the western vocabulary does not signify what they wish…