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Key details

Location

  • Battersea
  • The Hangar, Ground Floor, Studio Building, RCA Battersea, Howie Street, SW11 4NL

Price

  • Free

Who could attend

  • Everyone

Type

  • Exhibition

This April, RCA Africa will be exhibiting Earthen Reverie in the Hangar at RCA Battersea.

This non-academic show positions Africa as the central mediator of its material-temporal crafts and possibilities.

The etymology of ‘Afrofuturism’ displaces and dictates a Black other, a colonial voyeur that is incentivised to ravage and negate. Instead, RCA Africa positions itself as an ecosystem that ideates and purveys a Future in Africa. One that returns to fertilise soil and encourage conscious splendour. A motion that destabilises the notion of African stasis.

Our audience will be seduced into an immersion of play and delight. That which coalesces delicate motion with astute craft. That which goes beyond spatiotemporal hegemonies that confine and undermine.

Whispers of the past will be interspersed with echoes of tomorrow. This amalgam of tradition and innovation will pay homage to what was and is the potency of African artistry.

Earthen Reverie will exhibit 18 RCA Africa artists from varying disciplines across the Royal College of Art.

We invite you to delight in our earthly dreamings on 8 April from 6 to 9pm.

Exhibiting artists and designers

Amin Abdulrahman, Ebunoluwa Adepoju, Sharmaarke Adan, Zoë Chinonso Ene, Chisom Ibe, Myles Igwebuike, Emmanuella Itopa, Joy Julius, Anthony Karikari, Boluwatife Kolawole, Bashiru Lawal-Shardow, Nusra Nijimbere, Adjani Okpu-Egbe, Noel Oso, Amy Sarr, Timi Shogbola and Suleyman Wellings-Longmore.

Curatorial Team

Ebunoluwa Adepoju, Myles Igwebuike and Amy Sarr

Private View (RCA Students/Staff only): 8 April, 6–9pm

Public View: 11 April, 6–9pm

Other Opening Times: 9, 10 and 12 April, 2–9pm

Earthen Reverie