Dr. Nancy Dantas is a Research Associate with the NRF/DST SARChI research programme in Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa, Fine Art Department, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa. Dr. Dantas is broadly concerned with multiple modernisms, transnational networks, coeval contemporaries, and making history’s silences and omissions speak, and am intentional in my research of under-studied and obscured figures, particularly women, and their role in modernist art history. I have also published on repatriation and monuments and memorials in post-apartheid South Africa.

Most recently, I was in residence at the Giacometti Foundation, where I conducted research into the modernist constellations of Gerard Sekoto and what Laura Karp Lugo has referred to as “exile sociability and artistic networks.” Over the course of 2024, I hope to develop a parallel line of research into radio as a site for the modernist African voice and identity. As a post-doctoral fellow at the Instituto de História de Arte, I will be developing a project titled “Constellation B: Coordinates, mobility and overlapping worlds” on Portuguese-
Mozambican artist Bertina Lopes and the cross-cultural exchanges and connective tissues offered by the observation of her solidarity-driven trajectory.

In lieu of favorite publications, I am currently reading A Arte sem História: Mulheres e Culturas Artísticas (Séculos XVI-XX) by Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African America and South African Writing by Stéphane Robolin, Tribuna
Negra: Origens do Movimento Negro em Portugal (1911-1933) by Cristina Roldão, José Augusto Pereira and Pedro Varela, and Ibrahim El-Salahi: At Home in the World, A Memoir.

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