Mapping Bergen from Maasai Mbili’s perspective, this project engages with the city from the marginalised positions of a society. At Entrée, distinctions between the studio and gallery space are blurred to ask: is it possible to simultaneously exhibit and not exhibit; to show without showing?
Artworks are placed everywhere: on the walls or leaning against them, and in piles upon the floor. The public is invited to touch and hold the artworks, and it is expected that they may even unintentionally change their position within the space, creating new formations and relations.
Alongside this, drawing upon two on-going projects, Obange: Games of the Map and Karibu Mtaa, Maasai Mbili members will engage with the community in Bergen. The former is a street radio station that asks: who gets to speak, and where?. ‘Obange’ is a figure who moves unpredictably through the city, observing, narrating, and avoiding categorisation. Meanwhile, Karibu Mtaa,...More
