Faisal Abdu’Allah opens the 2024 exhibition cycle at Hangar, with a solo show entitled “Cardinal Virtue”, on display from 20 January to 24 February. In this conversation, he discusses the impact of his upbringing on his artistic path, and the series shown in the exhibition “Cardinal Virtue” – Last Supper (2012) and Prince Hall (2022).

Dr Faisal Abdu’Allah is a Jamaican-British barber and artist best known for his large-scale works that explore the intersectionalities of identity. Abdu’Allah has been exhibited on five continents and has participated in the Torino Biennale, the 55th Venice Biennale, and Aqua Art Miami. Abdu’Allah has collaborated with Sir David Adjaye, Virgil Abloh, choreographer Frank Gatson Jr. and singer Brandy. Abdu’Allah is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including The Joan Mitchell, Mayor of London Award, NEA, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. His works are in the collections of Tate Britain, the V&A Museum, MMoCA (Madison Museum of Contemporary Art) and the Chazen Museum. Abdu’Allah is the Chazen Family Distinguished Chair in Art and Associate Dean for the Arts at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Abdu’Allah stars in the current Netflix documentary The Fade and is represented by Magnolia Editions and Autograph.

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Edson Chagas is an Angolan photographer. Trained as a photojournalist, his works explore cities, consumerism and the affective and relational nature of objects.

In 2013 Edson represented Angola at the 55th Venice Biennale, the Angolan Pavilion winning the Golden Lion for Best National Participation and subsequently was one of three artists shortlisted for the 11th Novo Banco Photo Award, with an exhibition at Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon. In October 2022 Edson presented Factory of Disposable Feelings at Hangar – a series of works taken at the Fábrica Irmãos Carneiro in Luanda, Angola. He talks with Hangar radio about the project and his process.

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Gabriela Salgado is an Argentine-born curator of contemporary art based in London. Hailing from the Royal College of Art, she was formerly the artistic director of Te Tuhi contemporary art space in New Zealand, curator of public programmes at Tate Modern and the founder of Transatlantic Connections – a programme of creative exchanges for African and Latin American artists. In November, 2022, Gabriela curated an exhibition at Hangar entitled CURAR or TO HEAL. In this conversation, she discusses artists’ diverse knowledge systems, the development of decoloniality in curatorial practices globally and her own trajectory as a subaltern curator ‘complicating’ exhibitions.

Gabriela Salgado is an Argentine-born curator based in London and working internationally. ⁣

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Gabriela has a Curating Contemporary Art Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, and since 1997 she has curated a large number of exhibitions and has lectured in over twenty countries. She specialized in Latin American art as curator of the Latin American Art Collection at Essex University, UECLAA (1999-2005) and was curator of Public Programmes at Tate Modern (2006-2011). She curated La Otra Bienal in Bogotá, Colombia (2013) and the 2nd Biennale of Thessaloniki, Greece (2009) and acted as jury member for the Prince Claus Awards and Videobrasil Festival. She created ‘Transatlantic Connections’ a programme of exchanges for African and Latin American artists (2011-2016). Between 2017 and 2020 she worked as Artistic Director of Te Tuhi Contemporary Art in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, and in 2022 became director of The Showroom in London. ⁣

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