The exhibition When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting has been officially opened to the public at the Bozar Museum in Brussels.

How have artists from Africa and its vast diaspora depicted daily life over the past century? Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, and her team have sought to answer this question with a landmark exhibition. Bozar proudly presents this vast kaleidoscope of Black figurative painting from the 1920s to the present day.

Inspired by Ava DuVernay’s series When They See Us, the exhibition title “When We See Us” reflects a fundamental perspective exploring Black self-representation and global Black subjectivities. The approximately 150 works by around 120 artists are grouped into six themes: “The Everyday”, “Joy & Revelry”, “Repose”, “Sensuality”, “Spirituality”, and “Triumph and Emancipation”.

Praxis is honored to accompany artist Scherezade García in her participation on this historical exhibition.

Thank you Bozar Brussels and Koyo Kouoh for this invitation.

The exhibition can be visited until August 10, 2025.

The work Via Crucis: When the Sea is My Land, by Scheherazade García, was able to be exhibited thanks to the kindness of PAMM (Perez Art Museum Miami).