Belinda Kazeem-Kamínski • Kunsthalle Wien • Museumsquartier • 2021
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Curator • Anne Faucheret
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In her works, be they photographic series, films, or installations, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński creates spaces for encounter, conversation, and sometimes confrontation between herself and the viewer, but first and foremost between herself and the people who populate her pieces, her memories, and her imagination: those who have been disappeared and who are gone, those who are here, and those who are to come. While the artist critically investigates regimes of looking and decodes the racist cultural apparatus underlying the ongoing system of subjugation and exploitation of Black lives, she outreaches at the same time the violence contained in archives, in museums, or in books by opening pathways for exchanging, caring, and imagining. Intertwining critical Black feminist theory, conceptual visual strategies, and (science-)fictional narration, Kazeem-Kamiński explores diverse methods to communicate across time and space as well as to set the conditions and to create spaces—real and imagined—for the processing of the past, invention of the future, and disintegration of the present as it is.
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The invitation to the two artists Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*’s and Belinda Kazeem-Kamínski follows Kunsthalle Wien’s commitment to showing artists who question the legacies of imperialism, colonialism, and slavery and whose practices politically reframe racism and heteronormativity as political tools that were historically developed (and used still today) to subjugate and exploit certain territories and certain bodies. Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński tirelessly investigate racist regimes of looking and practices of Othering and deploy aesthetic strategies of resistance. At the same time, each artist speaks from a differently situated perspective that hinges on dissimilar experiences, resulting in two distinct practices.
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Twice postponed due to the pandemic, the final exhibitions by An a Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński are the outcome of an intensive dialogue and ongoing self-reflection. They include existing works reimagined and adapted for Kunsthalle Wien’s exhibition space as well as new works produced for the occasion.
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Link to the exhibition's website
https://kunsthallewien.at/en/exhibition/ana-hoffner-ex-prvulovic-belinda-kazeem-kaminski
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Link to the exhibition's booklet
https://kunsthallewien.at/assets/exhibitions/2021-10-ana-hoffner-ex-prvulovic-belinda-kazeem-kaminski/2021-KhW_Belinda-Kazeem-Kaminski_EN-book_web.pdf
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Link to the catalogue
https://kunsthallewien.at/en/about/publications/publication-belinda-kazeem-kaminski-hauntings-heim-suchungen
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Image credits from left to right, from top to bottom
1 • Exhibition view.
2 • In Search of Red, Black, and Green, 2021.
3 & 4 • Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński in collaboration with Baba Issaka, To let them know what we think about them, 2021.
5 • Left: Fleshbacks, 2021. Right: In Remembrance to the Man Who Became Etched into History as “Der Aschanti an der Akademie”, 2021.
6 & 7 • Exhibition view.
8 • Left: Strike A Pose, 2017-2021. Right: In Remembrance to Ella Williams, 2021.
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All works: Courtesy of the artist.
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Photos : kunst-dokumentation.com / Manuel Carreon Lopez
