Coinciding with the launch of “Platform Africa”,  Aperture presents an exhibition of new limited-edition prints by artists featured in the issue, including Malala Andrialavidrazana, Fatoumata Diabate, Jabulani Dhlamini, Sipho Gongxeka, Nico Krijno, Musa N. Nxumalo, Mimi Cherono Ng’ ok, and Abdo Shanan in the 1:54 Lounge.

After a year’s discussion, the objective of this Biennale has settled as “Every Skyscraper is Built from the Ground”, which describes the process of art development during the history and emphasizes its base. The objective also metaphorizes that everything develops from nothing, symbolizes that image art are ubiquitous and influenced all trades and professions, and manifests the Biennale‘s ambition to enter into the public full-fledged. 
Biennale curated by Bisi Silva, Cui Cancan and Wang Qingsong

The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Crafts in Mali and the Institut français are pleased to announce the 10th Bamako Encounters, African Biennale of Photography Telling Time, which explores the complex and multifaceted relationship between images and time. Inspired by both Mali’s rich cultural traditions of storytelling and the nation’s recent political upheavals, the forthcoming edition questions the methods by which artists narrate real and imagined experiences through different economies of time. In chronicling how artists address the unpredictable and consequential relationship between political action, social experience, and aesthetic experience, Telling Time offers a multiplicity of perspectives from which to assess the biennale’s enduring role as an international convener of photographic practices in Africa.