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KJ Abudu on Ibrahim El Salahi: Pain Relief Drawings
Join critic and curator KJ Abudu for a wide-ranging conversation on improvisatory poetics, pan-Africanism, alternative genealogies of abstraction, and the politics of postcolonial modernism to celebrate the closing of Ibrahim El-Salahi: Pain Relief Drawings.
KJ Abudu is a critic and curator based between London, Lagos, and New York. Informed by anti/post/de-colonial theory, queer theory, African philosophy and Black radical thought, his writings and exhibitions focus on critical art and aesthetic practices from the Global South (particularly Africa and its diasporas) that respond to the world-historical conditions produced by colonial modernity. KJ recently curated Living with Ghosts at Pace Gallery, London, 2022, and at the Wallach Art Gallery, New York, 2022, and is the editor of Living with Ghosts: A Reader, 2022. He will also be curating a pavilion-bound exhibition, Traces of Ecstasy, for the fourth edition of the Lagos Biennial in 2023. KJ is currently a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program.