September 18, 2024 - January 12, 2025
The Africa Center
1280 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
The Africa Center
1280 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
NEW YORK, NY - The Africa Center, in partnership with African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), presents Points of Resonance: Contemporary Photography in Africa, an exhibition featuring the works of twelve African artists utilizing photography to investigate themes of colonialism, migration, and evolving African identities.
On view from September 18, 2024, to January 12, 2025, Points of Resonance presents 23 photographs that engage with historical contexts and collective memory, proposing alternative futures that resonate with shared experiences, aspirations, and challenges across Africa. The works reflect cultural transformations occurring within African and Afro-descended communities and illustrate how these artists transcend geographical boundaries, presenting new African narratives to global audiences while enhancing understanding of global African perspectives.
Points of Resonance is curated by Cairo-based founders of TINTERA gallery, Heba Farid and Zein Khalifa, along with independent curator, Sarah Sarofim. The exhibition is presented at The Africa Center in partnership with Afreximbank, under the auspices of the Afreximbank Art Program, underscoring both organizations' efforts to elevate contemporary African artists while emphasizing the significance of African cultural perspectives in global discussions throughout the African diaspora.
On view from September 18, 2024, to January 12, 2025, Points of Resonance presents 23 photographs that engage with historical contexts and collective memory, proposing alternative futures that resonate with shared experiences, aspirations, and challenges across Africa. The works reflect cultural transformations occurring within African and Afro-descended communities and illustrate how these artists transcend geographical boundaries, presenting new African narratives to global audiences while enhancing understanding of global African perspectives.
Points of Resonance is curated by Cairo-based founders of TINTERA gallery, Heba Farid and Zein Khalifa, along with independent curator, Sarah Sarofim. The exhibition is presented at The Africa Center in partnership with Afreximbank, under the auspices of the Afreximbank Art Program, underscoring both organizations' efforts to elevate contemporary African artists while emphasizing the significance of African cultural perspectives in global discussions throughout the African diaspora.
Featured artists include: Ibrahim Ahmed, Sammy Baloji, Fatoumata Diabaté, Nelly El Sharkawy, Maheder Haileselassie, Heba Khalifa, Seif Kousmate, Lebohang Kganye, Safaa Mazirh, Hashim Nasr, Nobukho Nqaba, and Dawit L. Petros.
Points of Resonance is free and open to the public. For more information, visit theafricacenter.org.
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About The Africa Center
The Africa Center is a multidisciplinary 501c3 nonprofit institution helping to shape a vision of Africa's future. Serving as a gateway to engagement with contemporary Africa, and as a platform for the exchange of ideas around culture, business, and policy as related to the African continent, The Africa Center advances thought and action around Africa’s global influence and impact on our collective futures.
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About African Export-Import Bank
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is a Pan-African multilateral financial institution mandated to finance and promote intra-and extra-African trade. For 30 years, the Bank has been deploying innovative structures to deliver financing solutions that support the transformation of the structure of Africa’s trade, accelerating industrialization and intra-regional trade, thereby boosting economic expansion in Africa. A stalwart supporter of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), Afreximbank has launched a Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) that was adopted by the African Union (AU) as the payment and settlement platform to underpin the implementation of the AfCFTA. Working with the AfCFTA Secretariat and the AU, the Bank is setting up a US$10 billion Adjustment Fund to support countries effectively participating in the AfCFTA. At the end of December 2023, Afreximbank’s total assets and guarantees stood at over US$37.3 billion, and its shareholder funds amounted to US$6.1 billion. Afreximbank has investment grade ratings assigned by GCR (international scale) (A), Moody’s (Baa1), Japan Credit Rating Agency (JCR) (A-) and Fitch (BBB). Afreximbank has evolved into a group entity comprising the Bank, its impact fund subsidiary called the Fund for Export Development Africa (FEDA), and its insurance management subsidiary, AfrexInsure (together, “the Group”). The Bank is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. For more information, visit: www.afreximbank.com.
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About the Points of Resonance curators
Heba Farid and Zein Khalifa are co-founders of TINTERA gallery, a photographic art consultancy with a gallery in Zamalek, Cairo, and an office in London. Their aim is to raise the profile of both contemporary and historical photography in and out of Egypt through a program of curated exhibitions, events and research projects. They represent artists from Egypt and elsewhere, emerging and established, with Egypt being the common inspiration in their work. www.tintera.art
Sarah Sarofim is an independent curator and editor based in Cairo. She was awarded the fall 2020 Editorial Residency at Canadian Art magazine and most recently curated Impressions as part of Cairo Photo Week 2023. Sarofim is an Art History and Visual Studies graduate of the University of Toronto.
MEDIA CONTACT:
The Africa Center
Ayofemi Kirby
press@theafricacenter.org
The Africa Center is a multidisciplinary 501c3 nonprofit institution helping to shape a vision of Africa's future. Serving as a gateway to engagement with contemporary Africa, and as a platform for the exchange of ideas around culture, business, and policy as related to the African continent, The Africa Center advances thought and action around Africa’s global influence and impact on our collective futures.
Follow The Africa Center on X.com, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube @TheAfricaCenter.
About African Export-Import Bank
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is a Pan-African multilateral financial institution mandated to finance and promote intra-and extra-African trade. For 30 years, the Bank has been deploying innovative structures to deliver financing solutions that support the transformation of the structure of Africa’s trade, accelerating industrialization and intra-regional trade, thereby boosting economic expansion in Africa. A stalwart supporter of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), Afreximbank has launched a Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) that was adopted by the African Union (AU) as the payment and settlement platform to underpin the implementation of the AfCFTA. Working with the AfCFTA Secretariat and the AU, the Bank is setting up a US$10 billion Adjustment Fund to support countries effectively participating in the AfCFTA. At the end of December 2023, Afreximbank’s total assets and guarantees stood at over US$37.3 billion, and its shareholder funds amounted to US$6.1 billion. Afreximbank has investment grade ratings assigned by GCR (international scale) (A), Moody’s (Baa1), Japan Credit Rating Agency (JCR) (A-) and Fitch (BBB). Afreximbank has evolved into a group entity comprising the Bank, its impact fund subsidiary called the Fund for Export Development Africa (FEDA), and its insurance management subsidiary, AfrexInsure (together, “the Group”). The Bank is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. For more information, visit: www.afreximbank.com.
Follow us on: X |Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram
About the Points of Resonance curators
Heba Farid and Zein Khalifa are co-founders of TINTERA gallery, a photographic art consultancy with a gallery in Zamalek, Cairo, and an office in London. Their aim is to raise the profile of both contemporary and historical photography in and out of Egypt through a program of curated exhibitions, events and research projects. They represent artists from Egypt and elsewhere, emerging and established, with Egypt being the common inspiration in their work. www.tintera.art
Sarah Sarofim is an independent curator and editor based in Cairo. She was awarded the fall 2020 Editorial Residency at Canadian Art magazine and most recently curated Impressions as part of Cairo Photo Week 2023. Sarofim is an Art History and Visual Studies graduate of the University of Toronto.
MEDIA CONTACT:
The Africa Center
Ayofemi Kirby
press@theafricacenter.org
