Unless there’s terrible news Africa doesn’t get much notice in this part of the world. But at the Venice Biennale six years ago it was the object of thousands of beauty-bedazzled eyes, even if some of those eyes didn’t know at first what they were looking at.

Large but light and lighter is the goal. “I’m working toward buoyancy,” he said.
Will that buoyant art be African? Western?
Neither, or rather both, in ways that make such categories expansive rather than confining