diaspora

Across spaces in London, authors, artists and collectives from southwest Asia, north Africa and the wider diaspora fuse storytelling and performance to preserve personal histories

In a time of heightened vulnerability, new media lends itself to the Arab diaspora, reconstructing ideals of exit, nationalism and things lost

At Auto Italia, London, a film by Invernomuto and Jim C. Nedd traces the history of Afro-Colombian sound systems

At London's Cell Project Space, the artists' timely new commissions explore the potency of intimate gestures and simple actions 

A public art exhibition by the artist whose life was claimed by the Grenfell Tower Fire is a salve for a wounded borough

From the art of opacity to Joan Didion on race and the problem of good intentions: what to read this weekend