cecile emeke

Lebohang Kganye | South Africa 

She explains in a recent interview for @thefader: There’s this whole generation of younger people who have grown up with African descent but [been raised] in a cross-section between European and African cultures,” says the artist Lina Viktor, a British visual artist who created the cover image for La Vie Est Belle. “The question is: How do you bridge those divides and create something that’s not the stereotypical or eroticized African identity? Yannick has grown up between all these places. So it’s impossible not to be influenced by all the things that are going on, and to create the amalgamation.” #noirwave #black #british #african #africandiaspora #art #excellence

a film i made about the prolific artist and inspiring human, faith ringgold as part of the ‘soul of a nation’ exhibition currently showing at tate modern, london. 

Vincent Van Gogh, Seascape at Saintes-Maries, 1888

20th Century Women (2016), dir. Mike Mills

What we’re reading

Black Girl (1966), dir. Ousmane Sembène

“BLAC CHYNA’S NEW REALITY” Paper Magazine 2016

Daughters of the Dust (1991)