'The Forest and Desert School Revisited’ in Nairobi

Circle Art Gallery has outdone itself with the launch of ‘The Forest and Desert School Revisited' exhibition last Wednesday night. Curated by the South African architect, researcher, and curator, Michelle Mlati, the show brings to mind the concept forwarded first by the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes who was intent on dominating Africa “from Cape to Cairo” for his empire.
Michelle is no imperialist although she has been intent on capturing some of the finest contemporary artworks “from Cape to Cairo” as seen at Circle Art where she represents the Cape and Souad Abdelrassoul represents Cairo.

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In between, her regional focus has primarily been on Sudanese artists whose artworks could correlate in some way with the core concepts found in the poetic tradition and literary movement defined in the Sudanese Forest and Desert School.