There's a great deal of cross pollination in this. You can't really call it African art, but it's art by contemporary African artists. There's also a political strain running through this and it catches the reverberations of the opening of South Africa and its checkered past. There's a lot of work here that deals with the aftermath of the end apartheid and what still needs to be dealt with by the people of South Africa. It's about motion.
Art is never static.
It's always dynamic. We think of modern art as basically European art, American phenomenon and this certainly gives lie to that idea. It's a world wide phenomenon. African artists were the stimulus to so much that changed art in Europe and America. The third thing is the technical brilliance of so many artists who are working in these media.