AKAA 2022, photo: Katia Barillot
Africa is back in the Marais with, as every year, the international fair of contemporary African art and design AKAA (Also Known As Africa Fair). A rendez-vous very cutting-edge which, for seven years, has received the crème de la crème of African artists and the diasporas.
Under the Carreau du Temple hall, there is no question of primitivism, fetishization or hackneyed clichés but of 130 painters, photographers, sculptors, performers, etc., who know, visit and explore Africa beyond the stereotypes. Here, for three days, 40 international galleries represent sure values: Ousmane Bâ (Foreign Agent gallery), Alexis Peskine (October Gallery), Sanda Amadou (Open Art Exchange), Barbara Wildenboer (Ceci n'est pas un cube blanc gallery) , Matthew Eguavoen (Afikaris gallery), Gael Maski (Angalia gallery).
AKAA 2022, photo: Katia Barillot
The theme chosen this year by Armelle Dakouo, the artistic director of AKAA, is movement, that, for example, of the photos of Aurélie Tiffy (Rieffle gallery). There will also be performances by Annabel Guérédrat and David Gumbs, who is a videographer, as well as monumental installations in the nave of the Grande Halle, by Malian artist Abdoulaye Konaté (gallery 38) and Nnenna Okore (October Gallery).
AKAA 2022, photo: Katia Barillot
As a bonus, AKAA is offering round tables this year that will attempt to answer difficult questions. Why is the African art market less dynamic in France than in England? Why are some artists still underrated? And why are some collectors less inclined to pay sums that are not extravagant when it comes to works from the dark continent? A neocolonial bent perhaps…
▼ AKAA (Also known as Africa) –Art & design fair
Carreau du Temple
4 rue Eugène-Spuller, 75003 Paris
Friday October 21 from 12 p.m. to 21 p.m.
Saturday October 22 from 12 a.m. to 20 p.m.
Sunday October 23 from 12 a.m. to 18 p.m.
From 20 October to 23 2022
AKAA 2022, photo: Katia Barillot
Text: Katia Barillot
19.10.22
