African Art Against the State

January 29, 2016 - August 28, 2016 - This exhibition highlights the long and extraordinary history of activism, intervention, and resistance that has characterized a great deal of African art-making from prehistory to the present. In underscoring how artists have used expressive culture in Africa to produce advocacy and even agency for disenfranchised and marginalized groups and communities, the exhibition will utilize a select group of objects from various traditions and artistic moments to highlight how art has been used as a mechanism of mediation across both space and time while giving teeth to the adage that sometimes images can speak louder than words.