Gallery Girl meets Aindrea Emelife

September 10, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

Gallery Girl met with Aindrea Emelife to talk being a young woman in the arts and sliding into artists’ DMs.

The Lotus Eaters @ Aindrea Contemporary

November 28, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

As humans, we are constantly driven to consume. Fashion, food, culture, and whatever it is that gives us a thrill; addiction comes easily, wrapping us up in a false sense of comfort, allowing our obsessions to consume us. In The Odyssey, Odysseus’ men find themselves on an island inhabited by “Lotus Eaters.” Here they join […]

After Césaire @ Platform Southwark

May 22, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

In 1955 Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism was published in Paris and Dakar by anticolonial publisher Présence Africaine. In his essay Césaire (1913-2008) – who was born and died in Martinique, but who studied and worked for much of his life in Paris – criticized the European colonial presence in Africa, claiming that the colonizers […]