Offering a complete photographic survey of Jafa’s works and those of his “co-conspirators“ (Smith, Orupabo and Missylanyus) installed in the Álvaro Siza-designed galleries of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art and CCMO, the catalogue features a presentation by the Museum’s Director, Philippe Vergne, and a new survey of Jafa’s project by CCMO’s director, António Preto, tracing the references and discourses the artist engages with in his persistent inquire on the experience and specific expressions of negritude in the US.

This most comprehensive overview is complemented with a selection of texts from the Serpentine original exhibition catalogue ― essays by John Akomfrah, Tina M. Campt, Ernest Hardy and Fred Moten, and a couple of Jafa’s writings ― as well as a conversation between Jafa and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Published in association with the Serpentine Galleries, London