Photo Basel 2021

LOVE LOVE LOVE

Thandiwe Muriu, Camo 5 Muriu’s compositions paint an aesthetic linked to the beauty criteria of black femininity. The photographer reconnects with the glorious past of the African empires, with fabrics in frank and vivid colours enveloping her black subjects

Photograph: Courtesy 193 Gallery, Paris (The Guardian)

In Samoylova’s artistic work, she moves between observational photography, studio practice and installation

Photograph: Courtesy Gallery Peter Sillem, Frankfurt, Frankfurt

Ali’s work reflects on the politics of contested notions of linguistics, identity, borders, universality, colonisation, and the inherent dualism that exists in each of them

Photograph: Galerie Peter Sillem