Join us on Wednesday 30th October, 6 – 7:30pm, for a tour of Auto Italia’s exhibition, Salesman of Revolt, by Senegalese-Mauritian artist and filmmaker Hamedine Kane.
This tour, led by Auto Italia’s curators, will provide an in-depth look at Kane’s body of work, including the site-specific installation Trois Américains à Paris (2024) and the series Salesman of Revolt (2018). It will delve into Kane’s ongoing research into often overlooked experiences of exile and migration, how his work challenges dominant postcolonial understandings of borders and racialised identities, and the significance of site-specific installations.
This will be an interactive space for members to engage critically with these themes and share perspectives.
This event is free to attend and will be held at Auto Italia. Please register here or email info@artworkassociation.org
Hamedine Kane (b. 1983) is a Senegalese-Mauritanian artist and director, living and working between Brussels, Paris and Dakar. His work focuses on exile, wandering, inheritance and the awareness that stems from the experiences of political independence in Senegal and other neighbouring countries in Africa. His research looks into African, African American and Afro-diasporic literature which historically influenced political, social and environmental activism. Kane is the co-founder of The School of Mutants, a research project initiated with Stéphane Verlet-Bottero. Kane’s recent exhibitions include Kaunas Biennale, Lithuania (2023), Dak’art Biennale (2022), Berlin Biennale (2022), Les Rencontres de Bamako (2022), Momenta Biennial, Montreal (2021), Taipei Biennial (2020) and Biennale de Lubumbashi, DRC (2019), Casablanca Biennial, Morocco (2019) and Documenta 14: Every Time A Ear Di Soun, Berlin, Germany (2017). His films were presented and nominated for prizes at film festivals such as the IDFA, Amsterdam (2020), OpenCity Film, London (2021), Biografilm Festival, Bologna (2022) and RIDM, Montréal (2020), among others. Kane was nominated for Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2023 and was awarded a residency at the Art Explora, Cité internationale des arts, Paris in 2021 and the Villa Médicis, Rome in 2024.