Project a Black Planet
By Charlotte Stace
MACBA presents the sweeping exhibition, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica. It explores the cultural dimensions of Pan-Africanism from the 1920s to today. The show features nearly 500 works by around 100 artists, tracing the diasporic flows of art, music, printed ephemera and political manifestos across Africa, the Americas, Europe and beyond.
The exhibition takes as its starting point the date of the first Pan-African Congress (1919) and revisits Pan-Africanism as a set of galvanizing ideas: projections of another vision of a world that have yet to be elucidated artistically or considered sufficiently relevant in political terms. It is framed around key themes such as “negritude”, representation, protest and the theological and animist traditions that have fed into modern Black cultural production.
You’re invited to experience a layered narrative that goes beyond visual art - it brings sound works, graphic materials and popular culture into the fore, emphasising how Pan-African ideas have shaped a global imagination.