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How have artists from Africa and its vast diaspora depicted daily life over the past century? Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, and her team have sought to answer this question with a landmark exhibition. Bozar proudly presents this vast kaleidoscope of Black figurative painting from the 1920s to the present day.  Inspired by Ava DuVernay's series When They See Us, the exhibition title "When We See Us" reflects a fundamental perspective exploring Black self-representation and global Black subjectivities. The approximately 150 works by around 120 artists are grouped into six themes: "The Everyday”, "Joy & Revelry”, "Repose”, "Sensuality”, "Spirituality”, and "Triumph and Emancipation”.  By focusing on these themes, the exhibition offers a rich, nuanced view of Black life and thought, emphasising the resilience, essence, and political charge of Black joy. It highlights relationships between artists and artworks across geographic, generational, and conceptual contexts, fostering a deeper understanding of a complex and underrepresented genealogy rooted in African and Black modernities. When We See Us encourages discussion on Black liberation and intellectual movements and celebrates experiences from Africa and the African diaspora contributing to the art historical canon. 

Point of view(s) brings together icons from our collection of modern and contemporary art, including Josef Albers, Francis Bacon, Robert Barry, Anna Boch, Marcel Broodthaers, Christo, Lucio Fontana, Fernand Khnopff, Andres Serrano, Vincent van Gogh, Rik Wouters and many others.

BRAFA Art Fair is one of the leading European art and antiques fairs BRAFA Art Fair is one of the leading European art and antiques fairs. With a consistent focus on high quality, authenticity and diversity, the fair offers treasures of classicism, modern & contemporary art and design, covering more than 20 specialties. Information Source: Foire des Antiquaires de Belgique asbl | expotobi

BATIBOUW is the biggest Belgian trade fair for construction, renovation and home improvement for professionals and the general public BATIBOUW is the biggest Belgian trade fair for construction, renovation and home improvement for professionals and the general public. It brings together all the elements necessary for the construction, renovation or construction of the home and its surroundings. Information Source: FISA S.A. | expotobi

A recurring character in Emily Mae Smith’s oeuvre is an anthropomorphic broomstick figure, inspired by the segment The Sorcerer’s Apprentice in Disney’s Fantasia (1940), which was based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 1797 poem. This figure becomes her avatar, simultaneously referring to the painter’s brush, the working tool of housemaids, the mythologized instrument of the witch but also the phallus, giving a sexual dimension to her paintings.