Introduction with the curators Koyo Kouoh and Rasha Salti

Koyo Kouoh is an independent curator and cultural producer, working and living in Dakar, Senegal. She is the founding artistic director of Raw Material Company—a center for art, knowledge, and society in Dakar. Kouoh is also curator of the education program at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London. She has served as curatorial advisor for documenta 12 (2007) and documenta 13 (2012); she co-curated Les Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine in Bamako in 2001 and 2003, and over the years, she has collaborated in different capacities with the Dakar Biennial. Some of her more recent projects include Body Talk: Feminism, Sexuality and the Body in the Work of Six African Women Artists (2015); Condition Report on Building Art Institutions in Africa (2013), a collection of essays resulting from the eponymous symposium held in Dakar in January 2012; and Word!Word?Word! Issa Samb and the Undecipherable Form (2013), the first monograph dedicated to the work of seminal Senegalese process-oriented artist Issa Samb. In 2016, she launched the Raw Academy, a pioneering international pedagogical laboratory for artists based in Dakar.

To the biography of Rasha Salti