Gods Moving in Places -
The Day Reader

March 25, 2022  -  June 12, 2022 @ ifa-Galerie Berlin (DE)

The second part of the exhibition cycle Gods Moving in Places presents works by Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc.

The artist intertwines his own personal history with the collective history of the Guianas, which is deeply rooted in the forests of the Amazon Basin. He reads this landscape like an archive, one marked by exploration, exploitation, rupture and loss. For many years, Abonnenc’s research has focused on the literature of the Guyanese author Wilson Harris (1921–2018), whose ecological and decolonial vision provides the lens through which the works in the exhibition are expanded and reconfigured. In his writings, Wilson Harris establishes a connection between the psyche and the landscape, drawing from an Amerindian cosmology founded on the interconnectedness of all beings, places and times. Seen from this perspective, the rainforest becomes a realm of infinite possibilities for reshaping a postcolonial condition.

Exhibition developed by Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Susanne Weiß, Inka Gressel and Lea Altner

Photos: Victoria Tomaschko