Art Paris Art Fair
We are very proud to announce our participation in Art Paris Art Fair at the Grand Palais in Paris with our format AtWork. From March 30th to April 2d, at the booth F19 we will present the selected AtWork notebooks made by students during 4 years of workshops in Africa and beyond.
Four years of AtWork’s journey, the intimate stories from ten different cities across the world coming together in an exhibition at the Grand Palais. We wanted to showcase them all, but we had to make our choices, selecting two notebooks from each AtWork experience done so far: Dakar, Abidjan, Kampala, Cairo, Modena, Addis Ababa as well as from Manama, Florence, Venice and Milan.
We entrusted this delicate task to our partner and a talented Egyptian artist Amira Parree, who has made her selection and will be curating the exhibition display for us.
The 19 selected works will feature the following AtWorkers: Samar Aleskafi, Mahlet Birhanu Gebre, Raffaella Carillo & Charlotte Ashcroft, Leon Chong, Abdel Kader Diakhaté, Defcon3 & ELLEmentare, Melania Fusco, Mohamed Keita, Hailu Kifle, Antonin Lagarde, Ian Mwesiga, Miriam Namutebi, Serge Nemlin, Yfke Ossentjuk, Federika Ponnetti, Nadeen El Rashidy, Nourhan Refaat, Boubacar Sonko, Ali Swar.
For most of the artists this is the first time to be exhibited in Paris and we are happy to give them this opportunity, introducing this new generation of thinkers and creators to international audience of Art Paris.
Along with the emerging artists we will also have the pleasure to welcome 2 special guests.
The artist Joel Andrianomearisoa has just realized two notebooks for lettera27’s art collection , one if which is going to be exhibited at our stand. Titled “The Complex Horizons of love” Joel’s notebooks are the perfect representation of his unique aesthetics and is the first step in our mutual collaboration with the aim to bring AtWork format to his native Madagascar.
On March 30th the prominent Italian performer artist Romina De Novellis will realize an exclusive performance at our booth, creating a new “interactive” notebook for our collection.
Come visit us if you are in Paris, we will be AtWork!
Claude Bunny Massassa is a contemporary artist from Gabon. She created Bunny Studio in 2016, a start-up dedicated to photography production, which became DWABI Studio in 2021. As an artist, she has represented Gabon in many international exhibitions in Senegal, Uganda, France, the United States, and Italy. In her art, she denounces social stigmas around issues of identity and mental health, and explores themes of traditions and myths.
Executive Director Kimberly Aceves- Iñiguez has been passionately committed for over 20 years to social justice organizing and advocacy efforts that bring voice and power to youth, LGBTQ people, people of color, and working-class communities in the Bay Area. Before coming on as the Executive Director for RYSE, Kimberly served as the Executive Director for Youth Together, the founding organization of the RYSE Center.
Kanwarpal Dhaliwal is one of the co-founders of RYSE and currently acts as the Associate Director. She supports and guides the implementation and integration of healing-centered practices, grounded in racial justice and liberation, and also develops, promotes, and advocates for policies, investments, practices, and research that enliven healing, justice, and liberation. Kanwarpal believes that the purpose of her work and life is to contribute to movements, communities, and legacies of liberation that honor the ancestors who fought for her existence and survival, and to forge a world that is just and gentle for future generations.
Sagal Ali is the founder and executive director of SAF. After a few years in her career in heritage protection in the cultural sector, she decided to develop the initiative to directly support young creatives in Somalia by launching her own foundation. She hopes to bridge the social gaps and inequalities women face in Somalia, both in society and in the arts scene.
Co-founders Catherine Dunga and Marleen Palmaers created Kitambo to bridge the gap between the African diaspora in Colombia and the narratives from the continent. From Kinshasa and Antwerp respectively, they work to connect African artists from the continent and their peers from the Colombian diaspora.
Martha Kazungu is a curator, art Historian and Founder of Njabala Foundation, an organization that curates periodic exhibitions and organizes a public program of activities to create a safe space for female artists to thrive and blossom.
Alicia Hansen is a photographer and teacher from New York. She founded NYC SALT in 2008 and, beyond teaching valuable creative skills to her students, has developed a long-term support system to uplift them through school and into their early artistic careers.
