2020-2022
Concept/Curation

Montréal - Miami - New York

Curation by: Afi Venessa Appiah
Printinted Artworks by: Jesse Katabarwa, Moyosore Briggs
Sculptural works by: ibiyanε
Élodie Dérond & Tania Doumbe Fines
Cinematography by: Christian Boakye-Agyeman
Sound Design by: Ouri & Tati au Miel
Research Support by: Sona Sadio and Daouda Ka
Exhibition Documentation by : Boiling Point Collective


Black Experience isn’t a Spectacle explores the legacy of the voyeuristic gaze in visual representations of the Black body. It intends to exist as a restorative gesture against the erasure of Afrocentric perspectives in [art] history.

The concept’s foundational exhibition took place in Montréal , September 2020 at Anteism Books Gallery; facilatated by Boiling Point Collective.

Combining the spatial elements of a visual art gallery and a reading room, Black Experience isn’t a Spectacle offers a landscape of ‘counter-visualities’. Beyond iconographic representation, our audience engages with Afrocentricity through the productions of thought with a curated library. Each collection of this library interacts with image-sequencing through print and audio-visual artworks, as well as, through physical embodiment with Bantu architectural sculptures.
   These add to the universal library of Black cultural productions with a subaltern experience and re-assertion of the ‘right to look’. The artworks allow for a reformulation to transform a detrimental quality of blackness – the spectacle – into a emancipatory virtue.