Perrin M. Lathrop is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University and the Warhol Curatorial Fellow at Fisk University Galleries in Nashville, Tennessee. Her research explores the interlocking intellectual histories and networks of nationalism, Pan-Africanism and modernism that informed art produced under the strictures of colonialism in Africa.
Responding with imagination to the brutality and violence of Sierra Leone’s civil war (1991-2002), Abu Bakarr Mansaray’s monumental drawing Sinister Project depicts a fictitious war machine with careful detail that reveals the artist’s background in science and engineering.
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