Kapwani Kiwanga
Eye Evil. The parallel history of optics and ballistics
Group exhibition curated by Ana Teixeira Pinto and Oier Etxeberria
Tabakalera, San Sebastian
Jan 28 – Jun 4, 2023

From the ‘visual ray’ metaphor to Pierre Jules César Janssen’s ‘revolver photographique’, the history of optics and the history of ballistics developed in parallel to one another, ultimately conflating in the figure of the drone: a camera that can kill. But under the aegis of, and working in tandem with, this technoscientific trajectory one finds a whole racialised and gendered regime of visibility, suggesting an ideological process at work ‘making what is contingent and local, perhaps even idiosyncratic, in matters of taste appear to be natural, and thus beyond dispute’1. The present exhibition aims to map the structuring force of this white gaze in its concrete and abstract dimensions, thematising – among other threads – the entanglements of aerial perspective with total war and the creation of death-worlds; questions of transparency and opacity; and what cultural theorist Jonathan Crary termed ‘the inversion of the gaze’, when the screen doubles as a surveillance device that watches the viewer watching it.

Kapwani Kiwanga
Les forces du sommeil. Cohabitations des vivants
Group exhibition curated by Marie Muracciole
Manif d'art 11 - La biennale de Québec
Feb 23 – Apr 28, 2024
Kapwani Kiwanga
Sortir le travail de sa nuit
Group exhibition curated by Delphine Masson and Marine Rochard
CCC OD Tour, Tours
Feb 16 – Sep 1, 2024
Kapwani Kiwanga
Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema
Group exhibition curated by François Piron
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Feb 3 – Apr 28, 2024
Kapwani Kiwanga
The Length of the Horizon
Solo exhibition
Copenhagen Contemporary
Jan 26 – Aug 25, 2024
Kapwani Kiwanga
Undoing Earthwriting
Group exhibition curated by Ella den Elzen
OPTICA, Montreal
Jan 20 – Mar 23, 2024
Kapwani Kiwanga
Fields of Forces
Group exhibition curated by Jessica Castex & Odile Burluraux
Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa
Dec 14 – Dec 23, 2023
Kapwani Kiwanga
The World’s Library Conversation Piece | Part IX
Group exhibition curated by Marcello Smarrelli
Fondazione Memmo, Rome
Dec 13, 2023 – Apr 21, 2024
Kapwani Kiwanga
Fabric of Community
Group exhibition curated by Bärbel Vischer & Antje Prisker
Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna
Dec 13, 2023 – May 20, 2024