• Living with Ghosts: A Reader. The font is black and the cover is black and white.
  • The book is open to two pages. The left page has a view of the gallery with the exhibition and the right page has the table of contents.
  • The book is open to two pages. The left page shows the title of the essay and the right page has the essay. The background is black with white text.
  • The book is open to two pages. The left page has three photographs featuring work by the artist John Akomfrah. The right page has an essay with black text and a white background.
  • Living with Ghosts: A Reader. The font is black and the cover is black and white.
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Living With Ghosts: A Reader

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Featuring republished texts by seminal theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as newly commissioned essays by some of today’s leading artists and writers, Living With Ghosts: A Reader is an important, thought-provoking work published to coincide with the exhibition guest curated by KJ Abudu at Pace in London.

 

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Living With Ghosts explores the ways the unresolved traumas of Africa’s colonial past, and its unfulfilled project of decolonisation, continue to haunt the present global order. The reader further expands on these complex ideas through philosophical, historical, and literary approaches. Reprinted texts by thinkers such as Achille Mbembe, C.L.R. James, and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni explore the historical experiences of the African postcolony and the problematics of decolonisation. Meditations on artists including John Akomfrah and Abraham Oghobase provide engaging entry points to their multi-layered artistic practices. Also featured are images of artworks in the exhibition and an in-depth conversation between Bouchra Khalili and KJ Abudu.
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Contributors: Achille Mbembe, Jacques Derrida, C.L.R. James, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Emmanuel Iduma, Walter D. Mignolo, Avery F. Gordon, Adjoa Armah, Joshua Segun-Lean. Interview with Bouchra Khalili, KJ Abudu
Publishers: Pace Publishing
Publication date: 2022
Softcover
11 ½ × 6 ¾ inches
160 pages: 37 color images
ISBN: 9781948701594
Living with Ghosts: A Reader. The font is black and the cover is black and white.
The book is open to two pages. The left page has a view of the gallery with the exhibition and the right page has the table of contents.
The book is open to two pages. The left page shows the title of the essay and the right page has the essay. The background is black with white text.
The book is open to two pages. The left page has three photographs featuring work by the artist John Akomfrah. The right page has an essay with black text and a white background.
Living with Ghosts: A Reader. The font is black and the cover is black and white.

Living With Ghosts

Pace Gallery is delighted to announce Living With Ghosts, a group exhibition guest curated by writer, critic, and curator, KJ Abudu, who brings together nine pioneering artists whose work explores the ways the unresolved traumas of Africa’s colonial past, and its unfulfilled project of decolonisation, continue to haunt the present global order.

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