This Blog is an ongoing project where I will publish some of my reflections about my incursion in the art world.

But my main goal here is to use this space as a platform where I can improve both my art competences and my writing skills.

I will work and publish in a language, English, that is not my mother tongue, however I have decided to use it here because in the future I would like to publish articles and books for an international audience.

Here I understand art in its broad sense. Visual, books, music, performances and many other forms and types that I will have a chance to be exposed to and appreciate.

I will also publish my point of views about some ongoing debates within the art world.

Naively I believe in objectivity and in adapting other perspectives in addressing issues. So, I will try to discuss some issues here, analysing them through perspectives that I consider as the most relevant or alternative.

It seems that I was always an artist, since my childhood, I have a degree in journalism, and from the last few years I’ve been exposed to art creations and their diffusion.
So, what I will publish here is the result of this combination.

But the main motivation to me to create this space is the fact that I have access to venues and materials that eventually when they had been created I was not part of its target audiences. For many reasons, that unfortunately I will not explain here.

However, I hope that the topics and how I will write about them will help me to explain that.
That is why I have decided to title this space as << Unexpected-Viewer>> the one that no one was waiting for but had managed to be present.

So, here I will share my feelings and impressions arisen during my exposes as a viewer to Exhibitions and to other art mediums
I will share, also some interesting materials that I will find on my archival research

So, dear READERS, whenever necessary, feel free to comment, and to always correct me, I will appreciate it!

Some notes about the blog  founder:
Amarildo Ajasse, born in Mozambique, earned his PhD in Art History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The title of his PhD dissertation is: “Why and how are we here?” Presence and Representation of Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa Arts at the Venice Biennale from 1990 to 2017.
He is the founder of the Online Archive of the Contemporary African Arts at Venice Art Biennale and one of the founders of the ARCA:net- Network of Researchers on African Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture.
E-mail: valerianoamarildo@gmail.com