“Curatorial practice is a field of proposition and negotiation.”
Koyo Kouoh has been the Executive Director and Chief Curator at The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town, South Africa, since March 2019. Prior to that, Kouoh was the founding Artistic Director of RAW Material Company in Dakar, Senegal, a center for art and critical education as well as a renowned residency program founded in 2008. She considers her curatorial practice as aligned with aspects of storytelling, mediation, and understanding what artistic practice does in the society. “I also understand the practice of curating as a practice of enabling, of making possible, unearthing, opening, and channeling ideas and energies toward a culmination of issues that can be political, historical, social,” she adds. “Curatorial practice is a field of proposition and negotiation. I rather call this work ‘cultural producing’ because I really believe that the multiple layers and fields that a curator can invest in are far bigger than what we have learned to consider the space of the exhibition”
