Haja Fanta

Cohort year: 2023

Haja Fanta is a curator, researcher, and writer working between London and Dakar.  She is Assistant Curator at RAW Material Company and founder of Studio Marrah, a research-led curatorial platform. Her work focuses on West African and diasporic cultural production, exploring art’s relationship with society and the archive.  Her recent projects include an investigation into post-independence Senegalese art policy and preserving Sierra Leonean histories.  Haja has collaborated with the Southbank Centre, The Africa Centre, HOME by Ronan Mckenzie, and the National Portrait Gallery. She has written for Black Embodiments Studio, BYREDO, Contemporary&, and Texte zur Kunst. Through her Substack A Loose Thread, she shares insights into art, memory, and identity.

Image credit: Marta Camarada @martymarts