Produced alongside the FotoFest Biennial 2020 exhibition, African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other brings together thirty-three artists of African origin from around the globe. For nearly forty years FotoFest has presented and worked with artists and thinkers from Japan, Latin America, Korea, China, Russia and the Arab region, and this is the first time in the biennial's history that the central exhibition focuses on artists of African origin.

In their distinct practices they turn an eye to the social, cultural and political conditions that inform ideas of representation as they pertain to the production and circulation of images in Africa and beyond. They question the ways in which subjectivity is constructed and deconstructed by the camera, and in the process reveal legacies of resistance by those who defy traditional ideas of sexual, racial, gender-based and other marginalised identities.