Mistura Allison is a researcher, curator and art historian. Currently, she serves as Curator and Project Coordinator at Villa Romana in Florence, engaging in transnational artistic practices with a focus in contemporary art and advancing methodologies of decentralised exhibition-making. Her work focuses on research-based practices engaging with the plurality of contemporary Diasporic visual and oral productions. She is the founder of ashikọ, a visually driven research platform inspired by Africa and its Diaspora.