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Kapwani Kiwanga
Rumours that Maji was a lie ..., 2014

Mixed media installation
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In this installation Kiwanga treats the voids present in the living memory, as well as the material traces of the Maji Maji War; an anti-colonial uprising which took place between 1905 and 1907 in … Read More

In this installation Kiwanga treats the voids present in the living memory, as well as the material traces of the Maji Maji War; an anti-colonial uprising which took place between 1905 and 1907 in present-day Tanzania. The installation centers around a shelving system, which functions simultaneously as a storage unit, an exhibiting structure and a projection machine. It embodies storytelling in the form of a subjective archive through which she questions the act of organising and categorising, rejecting any illusion of totality or exhaustiveness when treating historic events.

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Kapwani Kiwanga - Rumours that Maji was a lie..., 2014
Installation view
at Jeu de Paume Paris, 2014
Kapwani Kiwanga - Rumours that Maji was a lie..., 2014
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