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Worrying The Mask: The Politics of Authenticity and Contemporaneity in the Worlds of African Art (2020)
Directed by Zina Saro-Wiwa
Documentary
In this seminal performance-lecture-film, artist Zina Saro-Wiwa navigates the moral, philosophical and cultural conundrums that arise from the very existence of contemporary traditional African art. A large part of Saro-Wiwa’s artistic practice explores the masquerade traditions of Ogoniland, her ancestral ethnic group from the Niger Delta. Yet Saro-Wiwa’s hybrid identity has forced her to consider how African masks live concurrently in the West and in present-day Africa and how these African art worlds impact one another especially at a moment when restitution is being demanded. In Worrying the Mask, Saro-Wiwa challenges the call for the restitution of African art by privileging storytelling over geographical location.
Crew
- Director
- Zina Saro-Wiwa
Details
- Release date
- 2020-01-01
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- Nigeria