Intersections: We Will Tell Our Own Stories

In the delicate choreography between history and desire, there rises a murmur — the need to speak and to tell, and the desire to be heard and known. Intersections: We Will Tell Our Own Stories is not merely an exhibition. It is a living manifesto, unfolding through colour, form, and rhythm. To tell one's own story is to wrestle with absence and reconfigure it into presence. To walk through inherited silences and let the body remember what the archive forgot. Here, African artists — each in their own visual language — refuse containment. These are not fragmented visions. They are constellations. From painted flesh that glows with both pigment and ancestry, to abstract symbols that echo ancestral geometries, each work is a gesture of freedom. A refusal to be decorative. A demand to be read, slowly, honestly, vulnerably. In a world where the African image has so often been authored by others, this exhibition insists on authorship. On intimacy. On multiplicity. To walk through Intersections is to enter a living chorus, to hear the voices of the musseques, the markets, the bedrooms, the beaches, the ancestral fields. Not as exotic echoes, but as contemporary truths. Stories that have always been there, waiting for a quiet to tell us something. And now they speak.