Cassi Namoda and Sandrine Colard

Cassi Namoda discusses her exhibition, The Equator’s Forfeit (27 September—23 November 2024) with curator Sandrine Colard in this new video.

“Thinking about post-colonial African life, the idea of a forfeit is to be at a loss—the idea of gain and loss, of natural patterns and human experiences that exist around a forfeit, which is to release oneself. So, there is this kind of romantic notion, as well as things that are out of our control. ”— Cassi Namoda

In The Equator’s Forfeit, Namoda’s dream-like paintings unfurl across time, continents, traditions and cultures, depicting pictures of enchantment and disenchantment, as well as of loss and restitution, in the Equatorial regions.

Sandrine Colard is Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers-Newark University in the United States, and curator-at-large at the Kanal-Pompidou Museum in Brussels. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University (2016), and she is a historian of African, modern and contemporary arts, as well as a historian of photography. Her research has been published internationally and supported by grants from the Musée du Quai Branly, the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, the Ford Foundation and by the Getty/ACLS for his book project on the history of photography in the colonial Congo. Among other exhibitions, Sandrine Colard curated the 6th Biennale of Lubumbashi, Future Genealogies: Tales from the Equatorial Line in 2019.