The multi-chapter exhibition, “Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the African Sea and Notions of Diaspora” is currently on view at Gropius Bau. Featuring works by contemporary artists, filmmakers, singers, writers, and researchers, the exhibition opened on the 6th of April, 2023. The exhibition traces links between the Asian and African regions, showing overlays and diasporic transfers between two places of rising global political, economic, and cultural importance in the twenty-first century. The Indian Ocean emerges as a community horizon, revealing shades of cultural, linguistic, political, and historical passing from ancient to modern times.
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Curated by Natasha Ginwala and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung with Michelangelo Corsaro, the exhibition parts, which are on display concurrently in Berlin’s Gropius Bau and SAVVY Contemporary, have been composed in resonance. Visitors can feel fluid associations that open up as they move between these venues, similar to the tug and swell of tides. The exhibition follows the first chapter, which debuted at Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, presenting a voyage of material, literary, and acoustic history and connecting them to the city of Berlin via this ocean.
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Exhibiting artists are Kelani Abass, Malala Andrialavidrazana, Shiraz Bayjoo, Rossella Biscotti, M’barek Bouhchichi, Nikhil Chopra, Dhow Countries Music Academy, Tishani Doshi, Köken Ergun and Fetra Danu, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Haji Gora Haji, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami und Belinda Zhawi, Clara Jo, Jasmine Nilani Joseph, John Njenga Karugia, Jeewi Lee, Lavanya Mani, Oscar Murillo, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Dominic Sansoni, Sim Chi Yin, Jennifer Tee, Jack Beng-Thi, and Abdourahman A. Waberi.
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Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the African Sea and Notions of Diaspora is on view till 13th of August, 2023.
