Into The Deep Loving Darkness
Kunstverein Braunschweig•Jun 22, 2024 — Oct 06, 2024
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I intended both to tell an impossible story and to amplify the impossibility of its telling. ––– Saidiya Hartman, 2008
Into The Deep Loving Darkness is patricia kaersenhout’s first solo show in Germany. The exhibition pulls at multiple threads through kaersenhout’s more than two decades long artistic practice to create a total installation that mines the violences of the archive and redresses them through emotionally evocative encounters.kaersenhout has dedicated her life’s work to tending to the history of enslaved people of color across the diaspora. Through a decolonial lens, kaersenhout posits that history is here with us, in the present. Into The Deep Loving Darkness takes seriously the question of revisiting the historical scene of subjection without replicating their violence. kaersenhout, a celebrated artist, emerges as a seasoned nurse dressing historical wounds. Through transformative audience engaging re-enactments, kaersenhout offers...More
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Into The Deep Loving Darkness
Kunstverein Braunschweig•Jun 22, 2024 — Oct 06, 2024
Press release
I intended both to tell an impossible story and to amplify the impossibility of its telling. ––– Saidiya Hartman, 2008
Into The Deep Loving Darkness is patricia kaersenhout’s first solo show in Germany. The exhibition pulls at multiple threads through kaersenhout’s more than two decades long artistic practice to create a total installation that mines the violences of the archive and redresses them through emotionally evocative encounters.kaersenhout has dedicated her life’s work to tending to the history of enslaved people of color across the diaspora. Through a decolonial lens, kaersenhout posits that history is here with us, in the present. Into The Deep Loving Darkness takes seriously the question of revisiting the historical scene of subjection without replicating their violence. kaersenhout, a celebrated artist, emerges as a seasoned nurse dressing historical wounds. Through transformative audience engaging re-enactments, kaersenhout offers...More
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