At 1-54, the Contemporary African Art Fair, at the Somerset House, it was a treat to see an old, Neoclassical building taken over by emerging and established artists working from Cape Town to Iowa City. “I almost couldn’t stop myself from walking off with one of Donté Hayes’s otherworldly, seemingly ancient, ceramic fetish objects at Mindy Solomon Gallery,” said Lukov, about the young artist who’s finishing his MFA at the University of Iowa. Hayes makes black, bulbous ceramics, shaggily textured like fur. With titles such as Headdress (2019) and Withstand (2019), they conjure ritual and resistance.
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