Group Show of three large-scale installation works by contemporary artists Raven Chacon, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, and Oscar Tuazon. Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal Zurich, 15 November – 20 December 2024
In the group exhibition Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is showing Respire (Liverpool) (2023) and Keep On Keepin’ On (for Nile) (2023) (in collaboration with sound artist Bassano Bonelli Bassano), an expansive 3-screen video and sound installation (16 min loop) that was first premiered at the Liverpool Biennial in 2023. The work is dedicated to creating a meditative space for Black breath to expand. Individual and communal breathing is embraced here as a rhythmic, repetitive insistence on survival in a world where Black people’s ability to breathe freely remains precarious. On view in the last room, Kazeem-Kamiński’s green neon light A Breathing (2024) takes up a quote by African-American theorist and writer Christina Sharpe. The neon light serves as a signal and a reminder of the centrality of breath and breathing together in African and African Diasporan liberation struggles.
Group Show of three large-scale installation works by contemporary artists Raven Chacon, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, and Oscar Tuazon. Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal Zurich, 15 November – 20 December 2024
In the group exhibition Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is showing Respire (Liverpool) (2023) and Keep On Keepin’ On (for Nile) (2023) (in collaboration with sound artist Bassano Bonelli Bassano), an expansive 3-screen video and sound installation (16 min loop) that was first premiered at the Liverpool Biennial in 2023. The work is dedicated to creating a meditative space for Black breath to expand. Individual and communal breathing is embraced here as a rhythmic, repetitive insistence on survival in a world where Black people’s ability to breathe freely remains precarious. On view in the last room, Kazeem-Kamiński’s green neon light A Breathing (2024) takes up a quote by African-American theorist and writer Christina Sharpe. The neon light serves as a signal and a reminder of the centrality of breath and breathing together in African and African Diasporan liberation struggles.