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The present is built on the ruins of the past. Fragile in itself, it unfolds as a multiplicity of parallel presents, an endlessly overwritten sheet of paper shaped by layered narratives of community: at once interwoven and fragmented, grounded and adrift. As the Cameroonian historian Achille Mbembe (*1957) writes in ‚The earthly community‘ (2022), humans are “custodians along a chain of solidarity between the generations.”
For almost two decades, Mariana Castillo Deball has explored how systems of power shape and transform knowledge. Working at the intersection of art, science, history, and archaeology, she continually examines the institutional structures through which culture and history are preserved and passed on—looking not only at their taxonomies, categories, and grids, but also at their gaps, misreadings, and ideological uses.
Her new installation at Dortmunder Kunstverein takes inspiration from the Old Testament story of the To…
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The present is built on the ruins of the past. Fragile in itself, it unfolds as a multiplicity of parallel presents, an endlessly overwritten sheet of paper shaped by layered narratives of community: at once interwoven and fragmented, grounded and adrift. As the Cameroonian historian Achille Mbembe (*1957) writes in ‚The earthly community‘ (2022), humans are “custodians along a chain of solidarity between the generations.”
For almost two decades, Mariana Castillo Deball has explored how systems of power shape and transform knowledge. Working at the intersection of art, science, history, and archaeology, she continually examines the institutional structures through which culture and history are preserved and passed on—looking not only at their taxonomies, categories, and grids, but also at their gaps, misreadings, and ideological uses.
Her new installation at Dortmunder Kunstverein takes inspiration from the Old Testament story of the To…
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