{"id":60122,"date":"2025-01-16T17:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=60122"},"modified":"2025-01-16T17:19:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:19:50","slug":"last-chance-dance-will-be-you","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-dance-will-be-you\/","title":{"rendered":"<mark>CLOSING TODAY<\/mark> Dance Will Be You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Efie Gallery continues its commendable promotion of artists of African origin with this group show featuring<strong>\u00a0Mar\u00eda Magdalena Campos-Pons<\/strong>, ahead of her debut solo exhibition in the Middle East at Efie in April, alongside works by <strong>JK Bruce-Vanderpuije,\u00a0Dina Nur Satti\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Myles Igwebuike<\/strong>. The gallery says the exhibition \u201coffers a nuanced exploration of the symbolic and performative dimensions within contemporary African art, focusing on themes of contemplation, devotion, and transcendence \u2013 each of which resonates with deeper cultural narratives.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly an interesting group: Mar\u00eda Magdalena Campos-Pons is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work explores themes of memory, identity, and history, drawing from her Cuban and Yoruba heritage. JK Bruce-Vanderpuije (1899 \u2013 1989),has an extensive archive of photography documenting the cultural history from West Africa. Dina Nur Satti creates ceramics deeply influenced by her studies of African art and pre-colonial African societies. And Myles Igwebuike explores the Mbari houses of Igbo culture in his design practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Efie Gallery continues its commendable promotion of artists of African origin with this group show featuring\u00a0Mar\u00eda Magdalena Campos-Pons, ahead of her debut solo exhibition in the Middle East at Efie in April, alongside works by JK Bruce-Vanderpuije,\u00a0Dina Nur Satti\u00a0and\u00a0Myles Igwebuike. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-dance-will-be-you\/\" title=\"CLOSING TODAY Dance Will Be You\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,96],"class_list":["post-60122","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","cat_art","cat_exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/60122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/60122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60122"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=60122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}