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Montez Press Radio:
on worried notes at CUE Art
with Keli Safia Maksud and Christian Nyampeta
A live broadcast at Montez Press Radio
Saturday, March 30, 2024 from 5–6 pm
Artist Keli Safia Maksud discusses her recent solo exhibition at CUE Art, worried notes, with artist, filmmaker, and writer Christian Nyampeta. Maksud and Nyampeta will expand on ideas embedded in the show and their artistic practices, discussing national identity and post-colonial African statehood, and incorporating references to music and cinema throughout the conversation.
Listen live on Saturday, March 30th at 5 pm at radio.montezpress.com, and read more about the exhibition here.
Keli Safia Maksud is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in sound, sculpture, installation, printmaking, and embroidery. Concerned with histories of colonial encounters and the effects of these encounters on memory and identities, Maksud’s practice favors the space of in-between and its threshold — working toward destabilizing received histories in order to expose fictions of the state.
Maksud earned a BFA in Painting from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, a Diploma in Art and Curatorial Studies at the New Centre for Research and Practice, and an MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University. Her work has been shown at Goodman Gallery, ACUD Galerie, Salon 94, Huxley Parlour, the Bamako Biennial, the National Museum of Contemporary Art – Seoul, Galería Nueva, and the Biennial of Contemporary Art Sesc_Videobrasil. Maksud has been awarded fellowships and grants from Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Council for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Her writing has been published in and for OCULA Magazine, the Swiss Institute, LEAP Magazine, and A Space Gallery.
Christian Nyampeta is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher living in New York and working in London, the Netherlands, and Rwanda, where he convenes the Nyanza Working Group of Another Roadmap African Cluster (ARAC). Nyampeta sits on the Board of Directors at Storefront for Art and Architecture and November magazine. He holds a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, completed under the supervision of Kodwo Eshun and following the examination of Leela Gandhi and Denise Ferreira da Silva.