Ex Africa

Through an original visual dialogue designed by critic and art historian Philippe Dagen, Africa Reborn attempts to decipher relations that have united the contemporary world and ancient African art since the end of the 20th century. In 1984, at the MoMA in New York, the Primitivism exhibition displayed over 200 artworks from Africa, Oceania and the Americas beside works by Picasso, Matisse, Nolde and Giacometti. In doing so, it positioned non-Western art as a foil to the Western avant-gardists, credited with giving them their status as works of art.