ABSTRACT
Dak’Art offers not only an opportunity to encounter works rarely shown, but also new perspectives, mirroring the world’s situation, and incorporates unusual concepts to refl ect daily challenges. While it is above all the expression of an aesthetical experience, it often tackles political issues in which it is embedded. It should be remembered that most biennials throughout the world have, at least until recently, rarely exhibited African art. Also, the problems this biennial faces and the questions it raises point to particularities it has had to deal with that are not easily solved. As African art has not suffi ciently been included in biennials held throughout the world, and as this is the only one taking place regularly in sub-Saharan Africa (Johannesburg held two events, one in 1995 and another in 1997), it has been concerned with showing mainly African productions in order to rebalance the lack of exposure given to African artists.
