THE POWER OF ART: TALK W. artists Abdalla Eltayeb and Muhammed Salah Abdulaziz
Why is art important for revolutions? Throughout history, art has played a central role in revolutions—as protest, documentation, and hope. Gain insight into art’s ability to inspire change, mobilize movements, and strengthen solidarity, especially in times of oppression.
Multidisciplinary artist Abdalla Eltayeb and photographer and curator Muhammed Salar explore how art creates a language of freedom, heritage, and longing – particularly in Sudan, where the world’s fastest-growing displacement crisis is unfolding, yet global media coverage remains limited.
The two talented and current Sudanese artists explore what art dares to express that journalism can’t, and how it plays a role in shedding light on stories that would otherwise remain unseen.
Muhammad Salah Abdulaziz is a Sudanese photographer and curator based in Berlin and holds a B.A. in Linguistics and an M.A. in African Verbal and Visual Arts, specialising in curatorial studies and media in Africa. Abdulaziz’s artistic process is intuitive and responsive to his surroundings, allowing chance encounters to guide his artistic choices. His photography often examines cities, relationality, and the organisation, distribution, and experience of spaces both physical and psychic.
Abdalla Eltayeb is a Sudanese cartographer and multidisciplinary artist based in Sweden and works at the intersection of memory, displacement, and material culture, drawing from both personal and collective histories originally. His practice incorporates printmaking, performance lectures, and data visualization, exploring themes of loss, migration, and the preservation of heritage.
The conversation is moderated by A Seat at The Table.
Language: English