Why tell these (hi)stories?
It is easy to respond to this by reducing the past to a simple lesson, or an empowering narrative. Rather than a simple answer, this exhibition is an invitation to sit with an unfinished history and the questions it raises. Not a clean linear narrative, but entanglements of agencies, identities and belongings, that shape the present – its lasting injustices and lingering traumas, but also surprising moments of kinship and recognition.
Attempting to build a different production platform, this project brought together a group of interdisciplinary artists to take over an empty supermarket in the city centre of Nairobi. Working for over six months, with ongoing discussions, the exhibition showcased collaborative work. It was made through a collective process, inviting the wider arts scene to activate and interefere in it throughout its runtime.