We are happy to announce a new Thami Mnyele Award winner Amado Alfadni. Amado was selected for the residency award in collaboration with Afrovibes festival, and he will stay in Amsterdam until the end of October. During his stay, as a part of Afrovibes programme, he will have pop-up exhibition 'Askari Soldiers' at Framer Framed, and will participate in the discussion at De Balie, Amsterdam.
Amado Alfadni is an Egyptian-born Sudanese visual artist. His roots are bi-cultural. At home with his Sudanese family in Cairo he grew up with the stories about and cultural traditions of Sudan. At school and at his studies in Cairo he received another formative influence. There he discovered a different version of the black identity, different from the identity that he lived in family stories and within the diaspora community. At school he studied a history in which the image of Sudan was negative, while the media constructed the infamous image of the ‘black’ Arab. It is this clash between different constructions of Blackness that Alfadni had to endure, was confronted with and which influences most of his art.
His work has been exhibited internationally at (among others) Goethe Institute, Cairo 2007; AinHelwan Culture Palace, Cairo 2009; Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh U.S.A. 2012; Super Market Art Fair, Stockholm 2013; UAMO Art Festival, München 2013; Storm Künstlerforum, Bonn 2016; Buel Gallery, London 2020; Textile on, Diaspora Köln 2023;
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De Balie discussion