An Ahram report, Art Dubai is:
For this particular show:...concerned with providing a hub for the exchange of ideas, but the focus has shifted towards a more “East meets East, and South meets South” direction, in the pursuit of untangling the “webs of connectivity that links us all” according to Antonia Carver (Fair Director).
courtesy of Ablade Glover. (Photo: Sara Elkamel)
The Marker initiative highlights links that are otherwise overlooked between geographically detached regions. “It’s perhaps artists that can really explore these concepts and ideas in the most interesting ways, and we really take this into the heart of the fair,” says Carver. For 2013, Art Dubai invited Lagos-based curator Bisi Silva to select and work with galleries and artspaces located in West Africa. Silva’s programme was curated around the theme of ‘cities in transition’, with a particular focus on the work of dynamic, independent organisations and artists dealing with specific identities and localities...[more]
Bisi Silva selected five spaces to participate in the fair and to work collaboratively with their artists to produce exhibitions for Art Dubai: Centre for Contemporary Art (Lagos), Espace doual'art (Douala), Carpe Diem (Ségou), Nubuke Foundation (Accra) and Raw Material Company (Dakar).
The artists that participated in Marker 2013 include: Ade Adekola, Karo Akpokiere, Soly Cissé, Harandane Dicko, Ndidi Dike, Amahiguéré Dolo, Em’kal Eyongakpa, Ablade Glover, Taiye Idahor, Abdoulaye Konaté, Adama Kouyaté, Boris Nzebo, Emeka Ogboh, Charles Okereke, Henri Sagna, Kan Si, and Joseph-Francis Sumégné.