An exhibition of 11 contemporary artists from the African diaspora, who draw on science fiction, myth and Afrofuturism to question our knowledge of the world. Myth, science fiction, spiritual traditions and the legacy of Afrofuturism are all sampled, reimagined and recontextualised in In the Black Fantastic. (more…)
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Julia de Cooker
Photographer
Born in Paris in 1988. In 2007 Julia leaves her native country to study photography at ECAL (School of Art and Design in Lausanne, Switzerland). She graduates in 2012. Right after her studies, in 2013, she focuses on the Svalbard archipelago and begins a photo project on which she would be working on for four years. In 2017 the project is exhibited in Longyearbyen and the same year the book is published by Kehrer Verlag (Germany). Since the publication of the book, the project is the subject of many publications and reviews. Julia presented and signed her book at Paris Photo, 2017.
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