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Join us for our annual San Francisco/ Bay Area Black Art week from Wednesday September 30th - Sunday October 4th, 2026!
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Unfinished Lines: Exhibition
Thursday October 1, 2026 11:00am - 6:00pm PDT
Minnesota Street Project
During Nexus Black Art Week we will be presenting 'Unfinished Lines', a captivating group exhibition, celebrating 4 exceptional Pan African Contemporary talents: Papytsho Mafolo, Pascal Konan, Hussein Salim and Aza Mansongi at AOCA - Art of Contemporary Africa, the first African Contemporary Gallery in San Francisco and one of few in the U.S.  

Four artists, then, whose lines have all been interrupted and rerouted: from Kinshasa by way of Brussels, from Khartoum by way of KwaZulu-Natal, from Abidjan by way of Abidjan, from Kinshasa by way of Douala. None of these journeys resolves. Each of these practices depends on that--which is why the exhibition belongs in this particular week.

Nexus exists to build a bridge, and a bridge requires something on both banks. Unfinished Lines is the continent’s side of the conversation, offered to the Bay Area not as a statement but as an invitation — four painters holding the line open, waiting to see what San Francisco does with it.

We will be hosting exhibition walkabouts on Wednesday 30 September, Thursday 1 October, Friday 2 October, Saturday 3 October and Sunday 4 October from 12 to 1pm. Light refreshments to be served.

Artists
avatar for Aza Mansongi

Aza Mansongi

Artist
Aza Mansongi was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a region plagued by conflict. Her subsequent life in Cameroon and her positive spirit have however led her to paint works that are infused with a palpable energy, joy and unmistakable sense of humour.

Aza's artworks speak to popular culture in contemporary Africa and how busy and chaotic our lives are in our obsession to acquire material possessions. Fashion, makeup, jewellery, electronic gadgets, industrialisation, people and domestic animals expose the frivolous materiality o... Read More →
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Hussein Salim

Artist
As a result of the socio-political unrest caused by the First and Second Sudanese Civil Wars, Hussein Salim, along with million others, was forced to flee his native Sudan and spend a number of years as a refugee in countries like the UK, Germany, Egypt and South Africa. His work... Read More →
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Papytsho Mafolo

Artist
Papytsho Mafolo (b. 1977, Democratic Republic of Congo, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium) is a mixed-media artist whose practice examines the relationship between cultural identity, human behavior, and historical memory, with a particular focus on African societies shaped by displacement... Read More →
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Pascal Konan

Artist
Pascal Konan was born in 1979 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. A graduate of the National School of Fine Arts in Abidjan, he now teaches painting there while maintaining his own practice. Staging the daily life of the inhabitants of Abidjan, the artist interprets a particular emotion... Read More →

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Thursday October 1, 2026 11:00am - 6:00pm PDT
Minnesota Street Project 1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
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