TEL AVIV.- Sub-Saharan Africa is present in all its complexity and power in the art world and the artistic discourse of the past few decades. The comprehensive group exhibition reflects this dynamic presence: it represents works that were made in or about Africa and focus on an Afro-futurist aspect as a way of deflecting Africa's tortured past and appropriating the future through a black cultural lens.

The exhibition reflect the vitality and effervescence that motivate Africa today, as well as the chaotic, brutal and at times tragic African reality. The works in the exhibition were created during the post-colonial period: the earliest date to the 1960s and 1970s (Africa's "Decade of Independence") and should be viewed as individual cases, as well as expressions of colonialism's ramifications, through a redefinition of the African body, landscape and culture. Works created in Israel reflect the local Little Africa—the growing community of immigrant workers and asylum seekers from Africa in Tel Aviv. They express various aspects of the Africa–Israel connection, and of the way Africa has assimilated into the Israeli imagination, fantasy and reality.

The different narratives manifested in the exhibition are reflected through utterances that shatter the conventional distinctions between truth and fiction, between myth and science, between technology and spiritualism. Often, the supernatural conception anchored in primeval myths appears in a futurist context, thus subverting hegemonic thought. In contrast, animism and science fiction coexist without conflict and in fact stem from the same sources.

Participating artists: Aboudia; David Adika; Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou; Abiel Amanuel & Alicia Mersy; Nurith Aviv; Frédéric Bruly Bouabré; Pieter Hugo; Bodys Isek Kingelez; Wanuri Kahiu; Luciana Kaplun; Ibrahim Mahama; Esther Mahlangu; Abu Bakarr Mansaray; Nandipha Mntambo; Zwelethu Mthethwa; Wangechi Mutu; New Barbizon Group—Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi, Olga Kundina,Anna Lukashevsky, Asya Lukin and Natalia Zourabova; Okhai Ojeikere; Adjani Okpu-Egbe; Onya Collective; Ariel Reichman; Adam Rotbard