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Presentación de la Colección de Casa África 'Fotógrafas Africanas'
As part of the Dakar Biennial, Sandra Maunac and Mónica Santos will present the Casa África Collection African Photographs together with Elise Fitte-Duval, who has lived in Dakar for more than a decade and who was the winner of Casa África's Prize at the Bamako Photography Biennial 2011, which is why she will be the protagonist of this collection's next issue.
Sponsored by Casa África, directed by Masasam Espacios de creación and coedited together with La Fábrica, this collection wants to make known the work of the most renowned African female photographers. Among them are those who have won the Casa África Prize, which is awarded at the Bamako Photography Biennial to an author living on the continent. The aim is to draw attention to the diversity of African photography and the soundness of its creators.
Zanele Muholi, author of the photographs that were seen in Casa África's halls with the exhibition Fragments of a new story, stars in the first title of this series. A visual South African activist and winner of the Casa África Prize awarded in 2009 at the Bamako Biennial, she hopes to give visibility to the black community of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and intersexual people, from a provocative and radical perspective with her work, which at the same time portrays an intense, lucid and deeply tender look.
The presentation of the collection will take place on the 18th May 2012 at 17:00h at the French Institute in Dakar as part of the 10th edition of Dak'Art, Contemporary African Art Biennial which is held in the Senegalese capital.