Staging Africa through its own lens in Shanghai

The show's last section, Memory, looks at the ways contemporary artists from Africa draw on collective memory to play with, challenge, and transform notions of identity.

In Judgment of Paris (2018), a photo by South African American artist Ayana V. Jackson, the artist playfully replaces the white figures of The Luncheon on the Grass, a seminal piece by French Impressionist painter Edouard Manet, with her self-portraits. "In visual history where black people are often the object rather than the subject of looking, Jackson's work shifts from looking at the black figure to looking from the perspective of a black figure," the curator commented.