Curator Puts Contemporary African Art on the Map

LUND, SWEDEN — Watching Koyo Kouoh make a last quality check on an exhibition she has curated is a lesson in focus, attention to detail and zen.
Though the press opening for “Body Talk,” a show of six female African artists at the Lund Konsthall in Sweden, was just a few hours away, Ms.
Kouoh, 47, was the essence of calm as she walked around with the gallery’s director, Asa Nacking, inspecting every installation and work of art.
Circling the Kenyan artist Miriam Syowia Kyambi’s installation “Fracture” (2011-2015), Ms. Kouoh, who had flown in from her home base in Dakar,
Senegal, the day before, nodded in satisfaction. “It’s always different,” she said, referring to a wood and rope cylinder structure with rags of fabric hanging off.
“That is why I always insist the artist comes to install it.”

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