Senegal’s Dakar Biennale: From red swimmers to floating teapots

Annika Hammerschlag | bbc.com | 27th May 2022

The Dakar Biennale bills itself as West Africa’s top contemporary arts festival. With a 34-year track record and a roster of hundreds of featured artists, it seems a reasonable claim. Africa’s dark history of colonialism is a recurring theme across many shows but so too is exuberance and optimism. Says one artist of the event, its “a sort of beautiful disorder”. Background on some prominent artists is here, here and here.