Africa
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Djinns in Berlin
['Sana Ginwalla', 'Tinashe Mushakavanhu', 'William Shoki', 'Orlando Reade', 'Basia Cummings']
Africa is a Country
My experience at Heathrow is echoed, if not narrated scene for scene, in Sarnath Banerjee’s work at the KW Berlin.
He states that at border control, you are often met with someone who looks like you—a brown or black Other.
Djinns are invisible beings that live among us.
Maybe an algorithm, maybe a fox, maybe a witch.
In Berlin, I encountered art shaped by the same forces that displaced my family: military crackdowns in the 1960s, 2007, and 2021.
['biennale'
'colonial'
'traditional'
'forms'
'maybe'
'djinns'
'threshold'
'zambia'
'heathrow'
'works'
'djinn'
'berlin']