Imagining, tracing, experiencing, inhabiting, projecting: locating Afro artists as culturally native to the Dutch art world

Dutch Afro-awareness today is coinciding with the development of minority subjectivities redefining themselves against dominant culture. It is in line with this moment that this thesis works towards deciphering how Dutch Afro artists carve out a space in today’s Dutch artistic landscape. The main challenge for the artists is dealing with the dominance of an art narrative that is heavily informed by American, British and World Art conceptions, which aligns their Afro-ness with foreignness and (political) Blackness. This means that even though Dutch Afro-ness is constructed differently than in t... Mehr ...