afila.si [æfilæsi] is a collective digital library anchored in Afro-centered perspectives of history with aims to fortify the accessibility of these texts. By actualizing in the tangible, afila.si welcomes You within Its inhabitance of Anteism Books, Tiohtia:ke. [Curation by Venessa Appiah , artworks by Jesse Katabarwa, sculptural works by Tania Doumbe Fines , audio-visual experience with Ouri &Tati au Miel, Christian Boakye-Agyeman, Sona Sadio and Daouda Ka .

Black Experience isn’t a Spectacle explores the legacy of the voyeuristic gaze in visual artistic representations of the Black body. This show is a restorative comment on the erasure of the Afrocentric perspective in [art] history.

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