Africa calling: Africa Remix in London

The largest exhibition of contemporary African art ever seen in Europe, the Hayward's Africa Remix show features 75 artists from 23 countries across the continent, as well as African artists now living in Europe and North America. Africa is a scandal," writes curator Simon Njami in the catalogue for Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent. Africa is a scandal because it is "hybrid", because it is inherently transgressive, because... no, let us leave it there. Suffice it to say that Africa Remix flails around to find an Africa that can claim its place in the world of biennales, glossy art magazines and proliferating theory. That it ends up discovering the same old realities of injustice and poverty probably says more for the honesty of African artists than for the thinking behind the show. Photo Gallery: http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/0,8542,1409100,00.html