EXHIBITION

Renaissance Against Dysfunctional Existence

FOUNDATION TOTAL Pamoja, Malopolskie, Krakow, 11/16/2015 - 11/29/2015

Józefińska 9, Krakow

ABOUT

In traditional societies, art forms are generated to heal; to heal the individual or the social body, or to heal the individual or the collective soul. It is rare that they serve other functions.

Kenyan society is modern and at the same time maintains some elements of traditions.

Working with traditional dancers and musicians there, I explored their knowledge about trance dance and music as a collective healing practice.

The project we carried out in Mathare, on the outskirts of Nairobi, was called “Re-Morphed Cultural Renaissance Against Dysfunctional Existence”. It was exhibited at the Mathare Art Gallery of the Razem Pamoja Foundation in summer of 2015. The title evokes this idea of healing.

I took this title from an ethnographic book about the reshaping of ethnic practices in South Africa in order to deal with the distress of people, given the current state of the country.

The general idea for my intervention at the Bookstore | Exhibition is to reshape the representation of the body in order to heal the mind. The audience is invited to engage.

 

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Mathilde Rosier

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