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	Guests during opening cocktail party

    Guests during opening cocktail party

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	Curator Solange Farkas and artist Moussa Sene Absa

    Curator Solange Farkas and artist Moussa Sene Absa

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	Installations Canoa quebrada and Hidden pages, stolen bodies by António Ole

    Installations Canoa quebrada and Hidden pages, stolen bodies by António Ole

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	Installations Canoa quebrada and Hidden pages, stolen bodies by António Ole

    Installations Canoa quebrada and Hidden pages, stolen bodies by António Ole

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	Mario Cravo Neto’s installation Somewhere Over the Rainbow

    Mario Cravo Neto’s installation Somewhere Over the Rainbow

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	Detail of Mario Cravo Neto’s installation Somewhere Over the Rainbow

    Detail of Mario Cravo Neto’s installation Somewhere Over the Rainbow

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	Installation Outros Navios, by Eustáquio Neves

    Installation Outros Navios, by Eustáquio Neves

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	Audience visiting Eustáquio Neves’ Outros Navios

    Audience visiting Eustáquio Neves’ Outros Navios

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	Daniel Lima’s installation Coluna Laser III - Mar

    Daniel Lima’s installation Coluna Laser III - Mar

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	Daniel Lima’s installation Coluna Laser III - Mar

    Daniel Lima’s installation Coluna Laser III - Mar

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	Nesting, detail of the piece by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

    Nesting, detail of the piece by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

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	Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons’ video installation Threads of Memory

    Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons’ video installation Threads of Memory

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	When I Am Not Here. Estoy Allá, a piece by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

    When I Am Not Here. Estoy Allá, a piece by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

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	Pape Seydi’s photography Mélodie

    Pape Seydi’s photography Mélodie

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	Ladies, photography by Fatou Kandé Senghor

    Ladies, photography by Fatou Kandé Senghor

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	Matar Ndour’s photography Rufisque 

    Matar Ndour’s photography Rufisque 

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	Joel Zito Araújo, Filhas do vento, 2004. Film, 85' 

    Joel Zito Araújo, Filhas do vento, 2004. Film, 85' 

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	Pierre Yameogo, Moi et mon blanc, 2003. Film, 90'

    Pierre Yameogo, Moi et mon blanc, 2003. Film, 90'

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	Moussa Sene Absa, Madame Brouette, 2002. Film, 104'

    Moussa Sene Absa, Madame Brouette, 2002. Film, 104'

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	Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Abouna, 2002. Film, 81'

    Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Abouna, 2002. Film, 81'

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	Abderrahmane Sissako, En Attendant le bonheur – Heremakono, 2002. Film, 95'

    Abderrahmane Sissako, En Attendant le bonheur – Heremakono, 2002. Film, 95'

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	Frédéric Savoye and Wolimité Sié Palenfo, Memoire entre deux rives, 2002. Video, 90'

    Frédéric Savoye and Wolimité Sié Palenfo, Memoire entre deux rives, 2002. Video, 90'

General Curatorship by Solange Farkas
2005 | Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia and Sala Walter da Silveira - Salvador, BA

More than just a physical element, the ocean that separates us from Africa is also a guardian of history, and a link between the two continents. The Atlantic Ocean, a slave trade route through which millions of Africans were forced to come to the American continent, was the starting point for the curatorship of the Mostra Pan-Africana de Arte Contemporânea (Pan-African Exhibition of Contemporary Art). The curatorship proposed dialogue and interchange between Brazil and the artistic output of African countries and of Afro-descendants. The exhibition was comprised of three categories – visual arts, thought, and cinema. The event took place at Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (Bahia Museum of Modern Art) and at Sala Walter da Silveira (Walter da Silveira Salon), representing the diversity of art work and ideas both from Africa and the Black Diaspora nations.

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