In Our Best Interests: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities during a Cold War presents contemporary art works and archival material which nuance Afro-Asian legacies that grew out of the Cold War.

Featuring Fyerool Darma, bani haykal, Ariko Ikehara, Eisa Jocson, Simon Soon (in collaboration with Munirah Mansoor), Vuth Lyno, Ming Wong and Yee I-Lann, these artists focus on Southeast Asia as a geopoetic imagination alongside a global post-WWII anti-colonial resistance to racism.

The exhibition traces a historical line between early regional imaginations such as Maphilindo, to contemporary appropriations of Afro-Asian histories, such as China’s development of cultural infrastructure in Senegal.

Artists:
Fyerool Darma, bani haykal, Ariko Ikehara, Eisa Jocson, Simon Soon (in collaboration with Munirah Mansoor), Vuth Lyno, Ming Wong and Yee I-Lann

Curator:
Kathleen Ditzig