WE DEY archive: Past.Present.Future

Vienna is a place where the contemporary art scene usually focuses on Euro-American perspectives. Artists of Colour and Black artists are kept mostly isolated from the contemporary art scene. On rare occasions, they are invited into these spaces but under the specific framework of having to fulfil white desires for “exotic” bodies of work.

WE DEY X SPACE aims to change these uneven power structures within the Viennese art scene by creating a self-organized art space in which BPoC artists are able to speak up and to show their works in a self-determined way.

Jaqueline Ejiji is a historian and founding member of WE DEY. Currently, she concentrates on social, political and economic conditions in the field of art and cultural production.

Sunanda Mesquita is a visual artist, curator, and co-founder of WE DEY. In her artistic work, she focuses on concepts of home, (be)longing and community.

WE DEY archive: Past.Present.Future
Talk with Jaqueline Ejiji and Sunanda Mesquita & Exhibition Opening
invited by Lydia Nsiah (Golden Pixel Cooperative)
With works by the WE DEY Collective
In the context of Pixel Léger