"Black Beauty, Pride and Excellence"True to its mission to enrich the London Business School experience through education and exposure to the black culture and community at large, the Black in Business club proud to present its first art exhibition centered on Black Beauty and Excellence in the LBS campus. This exhibition is offered to you by the Black in Business student club at LBS in partnership with Pavillon 54, a digital platform and community for modern and contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. It presents 20 original artworks from artists of African and Afro-descents around the theme: of “Black Beauty, Pride, and Excellence", showcasing different representations of Black culture and community with a focus on the resilience, celebration, and recalibration of the sometimes negative representation around Black identity. This exhibition shines a light on some talented contemporary artists reclaiming their narrative and sharing they views about what being black means to them.
ARTISTS
Suraj Adekola, born in 1983, is a Nigerian artist currently living in Manchester, UK. His work is informed by post-colonial narratives. Through painting, installation, and drawing, he uses elements of contemporary and historical material to explore themes of migration, diversity, integration, belonging, and identity politics.
Amado AlFadni is an
Egyptian-born Sudanese artist. His Childhood was composed of two environments: the Cairene street and the Sudanese home. The relationship, and sometimes tension, between the two strongly influenced his view of both cultures. The need to express this dual perspective led him to make art initially and has informed his work since. Amado’s work discusses the relationship between the included and the excluded, and opens dialogue on issues of identity and politics, by working with forgotten historical events and current state policies.
Àsìkò is a UK-based Nigerian conceptual artist who explores his ideas within the medium of photography, mixed media, and film. His work is constructed in the narrative that straddles between fantasy and reality as a response to his experiences of identity, culture, and heritage. Through the use of constructed storytelling and the application of composition, form, and movement - Àsìkò's work allows him to draw the viewer into a conceptual narrative that radiates emotions of strength, vulnerability, defiance, and loneliness.
Sani Sani-Mohammed, who also goes by
INxSANIxTY, is a contemporary Visual artist from Peckham Southeast London, and works in a range of mediums, from digital art to wood and oil painting on canvas. Divided into 3 major parts first to teach the audience about themselves through art, second to teach the audience about him and his culture, finally to push creativity and trigger feelings being it good and happy or bad and emotional with subject matters, inspired by his west African (Nigerian) heritage, London culture, and social commentary.
Maliza Kiasuwa was Born 1975 in Bucharest and raised in Kinshasa, (Democratic Republic of Congo). She now lives and works in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a self-taught artist, free from the formatting of art schools. She loves creating works that produces stimulating and eclectic elements. She is fascinated by natural laws that govern of the cycles of life and the power of nature. Her interest in these transformative and regenerative processes come from a desire to understand the mystery of ageing and death as a process that is crucial to our existence.
Denisse Ariana Pérez is a multidisciplinary commercial artist working as a photographer, film director, and copywriter. Her work focuses on people, nature, gender, culture, and words, and how they all interact with one another. It finds itself between the intersection of fantasy and reality, art and social commentary, particularly in regard to marginalized communities.
Bâ Simba was born in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo and currently living in Los Angeles. He draws inspiration from both his personal history and his research into African art histories, such as ancient Kemetic art, Bantu masks, and pan-African sculpture. Bâ Simba employs a characteristic methodology — complex geometric patterns and strong lines create an inimitable style.
To learn more about the artists, read our catalog
here.
If you have any additional questions or want to enquire about the works,
contact us (info@pavillon54.com).
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ARTWORKS