who are ‘from Africa’. There is also a vast infrastructure of institutions that specialize in ‘African Art’. And more often than not, artists from Africa are condemned to dwell within that infrastructure, because it gives opportunities. But epistemically speaking, African Art is a highly undefined and unspecified term. As already convincingly argued by the Congolese-U.S. scholar Valentin-Yves Mudimbe decades ago, the idea of an African culture is a Eurocentric concept haunted by colonial thought. It is carried on in museums that ‘do’ African art even though their presence beholds qualities of synecdoche – objects become representational for the culture of a continent. Further reading and notable publications The following are publications that note the artist as well give an intellectual perspective on her art. Local Voices in the Scholarly Discourse on Art Studies in Kenya: A Postcolonial Enigma by Kwame Amoah Labi, Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture, 2017 Political Independence, Personal Independence: An Art Historical Perspective on Contemporary Kenya and the Avant-Gardes by Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff, Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture, 2017 African Artists Make Their Mark, Overcome Adversity by Sarafina Wright, Washington Informer, 2016 Arts & Entertainment: The New Face of African Art --- Collectors are discovering Africa, where new galleries, museums and fairs are flourishing by Kelly Crow, Wall Street Journal, 2016 An Artist's Perspective on Africa at the Armory: An Interview with Ato Malinda, by Joseph Underwood, 2016 The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists by Allison Moore, Critical Interventions: The Africa-Italy Connection, 2016 Ato Malinda on sexuality, African feminism and performance as art – interview, Art Radar, 2014 Globalizing East African Culture: From Junk to jua kali Art by Swigert-Gacheru, Margaretta, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 2011 The scars of dissipation: memory, catharsis and the search for the aesthetic by Jimmy Ogonga, African Identities, 2011 References External links Ato Malinda on Artsy Artist Endorsed Page Ato Malinda Instagram Ato Melinda at The Armory Show 2016 Other Past Exhibitions 21st-century women artists Kenyan artists Artists from Nairobi Artists from Rotterdam Performance artists Women performance artists 1981 births Living people Kenyan women artists