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Columbus is Ohio’s state capital. The city’s Scioto Mile is a string of parks on both sides of the Scioto River, with a huge interactive fountain and trails. On the west bank, the COSI science center offers hands-on exhibits and a planetarium. Downtown, t
Wexner Center for the Arts Art center in Columbus, Ohio The Wexner Center for the Arts is the Ohio State University's multidisciplinary
international laboratory for the exploration and advancement of contemporary art. The Wexner Center is a lab and public gallery, but not an art museum, as it does not collect art. Address: 1871 N High St, Columbus, OH 43210 Founded: 1989 Owner: Ohio State
Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema
See the first large-scale museum exhibition dedicated to filmmaker Sarah Maldoror
a pioneer of African cinema and fighter for Black women’s empowerment.
Feb 03
2024–Apr 28
2024
Tricontinental Cinema explores Maldoror’s five-decade career as a filmmaker
tracing her involvement with Black liberation movements in France
Africa
and the Caribbean. Through an immersive
multisensory landscape of films
photographs
poetry
and letters
the exhibition invites you to experience the full scope of Maldoror’s practice.
Recognized as the mother of African cinema
Maldoror completed more than 45 shorts
documentaries
and feature films for both the screen and television before her death in 2020. Many of these works
including her searing anti-colonial drama Sambizanga (1972)—one of the first features made in Africa by a Black woman filmmaker—rewrite the rules of films focusing on resistance and rebellion
often casting women as protagonists in movements dominated by men. Other films chart Maldoror’s creative connections with key artists and intellectuals in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora
including Surrealist artist Wifredo Lam and Négritude poet Aimé Césaire
as well as jazz musicians like the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Tricontinental Cinema extends this circle of conversations and collaborations to the present. The exhibition includes several large-scale works by contemporary artists
including Maya-Bantu
a monumental fiber sculpture by renowned French and Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga and Homage to the Poet Léon-Gontran Damas
an installation by American sculptor Melvin Edwards. It also features a newly commissioned mural
painted on-site
from Paris-based artist Maya Mihindou entitled An Obscure Wound. Framing Maldoror’s films and archives
these works form a constellation of Black and Afro-Surrealist practices while amplifying the continued resonance of her work today. Images of all three artists’ works are included in the image gallery below.| Link to this photo view: | |
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