Author: Alessia D’Introno
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In Minor Keys: l’ultima sinfonia di Koyo Kouoh per la Biennale di Venezia 2026
Di Alessia D’Introno English Version Dopo la recente scomparsa della curatrice Koyo Kouoh (1967- 10 maggio 2025), nominata dal Presidente Pietrangelo Buttafuoco per curare la 61. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia 2026, il mondo dell’arte ha reagito con commozione e smarrimento. Uno dei principali interrogativi riguardava il futuro della mostra da lei ideata,…
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Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński The archive in constant rewriting
By Alessia D’Introno everything remains in the eye of the storm it is quiet, they say but now that I’m in it I can assure you echoes refuse to fade they only return to reclaim who was taken Taken from the poem displayed on the walls of Kunst Merano Arte, this poetic invocation is the…
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Under the Umbrella of Power: Archive, Legacy, and Sovereignty. Interview with Artist Rita Mawuena Benissan
By Alessia D’Introno I always say like I want people whenever they leave an exhibition or they look at my work, I want them to feel that they’re a king or a queen mother for that day. So they feel royal for that day. You know, a lot of times we might not have anything…
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Interview with Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi: Performance Queer Resistance and the Future of pIAR
By Alessia D’Introno Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, also known as crazinisT artisT is one of the most daring and revolutionary voices in the Ghanaian contemporary art scene. With the pronouns sHit if not She, she subverts the contradictions of language and denounces how the homophobic colonial legacy has reinforced the perception of queer people as disgusting.An internationally renowned…
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Cose Bizzarre: the colonial amnesia in Jermay Michael Gabriel’s solo exhibition
By Alessia D’Introno The failure to convict the perpetrators for crimes committed in the colonies and the fact that the governments that followed after the fall of the regime never formalised their guilt, has in¬creased the growth of a collective imagination where even today colonialism is as¬associated with a history of little importance and the…
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Capitolocene and centricity. Interview with Andrea Staid
By Alessia D’Introno Through the anthropological view of nature conservation, cultural anthropologist Andrea Staid explains the different terminologies of the anthropological world and how they have influenced and continue to influence the world. In The Living House and Being Nature, she shatters the Western man/nature dichotomy and its consequent objectification of the environment, by introducing…
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The Cultural Representation from Visual Anthropology to the Post-Colonial Critique of Filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-Ha
By Alessia D’Introno The work of filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha, through her iconic film Reassemblage, challenges the conventions of visual anthropology and documentary filmmaking by criticizing the colonial representations imposed on Africa. With a post-colonial and intersectional approach, she ushered in significant changes to the dominant narrative toward the end of the 20th century. The image…
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Behind paradigms. Interview with Elvira Vannini
By Alessia D’Introno In a focused and attentive reflection on contemporary art and its post-colonial paradigms, Elvira Vannini, art critic and historian, disseminates an all-feminist, ecological and anti-imperialist art. Through her magazine Hot Potatoes, she formulates a new critique. In her case, the terms feminism and de-colonialism do not imply a passing fad, but the…
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The colonial archive in the photography of artist Délio Jasse
By Alessia D’Introno In his studio, Délio Jasse shows the repertoire of colonial-era images he collects as an essential part of his work. In this interview, the artist talks about his approach to photography and his participation in the group exhibition Souvenir d’Italie presented in the OFF section in the occasion of the Dak’Art Contemporary…
