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Lost in Translation

Participants: Christ Mukenge, Lydia Schellhammer

Artist presentation and talk by the duo Mukenge/Schellhammer.

During the event, Mukenge/Schellhammer will delve into the role of translation in their artistic work. They will discuss how a distinct aesthetic emerges from the translation process between digital and analog space in their current series of multimedia works. The duo will explore the nuances of visual translation, observing what is lost, added, and changed in the process.

Furthermore, Mukenge/Schellhammer has been engaged in cross-disciplinary work, collaborating with different authors and theorists to establish dialogues between visual art and writing. This collaboration has led to the creation of multilingual publications, bridging continents and languages while embracing intercultural misunderstandings and artistic traditions in the translation processes.

As part of the talk, Mukenge/Schellhammer will present their current multimedia work series in a short presentation with images (projection). They will show excerpts from the exhibition "Forward Flight" (Galerie Barbara Thumm, March 2024) and their contribution to the group exhibition "Between pixel and pigment: Hybrid painting in post-digital times" (Marta Herford, July-November 2024). They will also present the publications "Pool Malebo" (2023), a collaboration between Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Marian Kaiser, and Mukenge/Schellhammer, and "Kinzonzi Kinshasa-Berlin" by Laboratoire Kontempo (2023).

Mukenge/Schellhammer consists of Christ Mukenge (*1988 in Kinshasa) and Lydia Schellhammer (*1992 in Konstanz). Since its formation in 2016, the duo has been living and working between Germany and Kinshasa. Mukenge/Schellhammer processes its experiences and investigations in the very different social and economic systems of Europe and the Democratic Republic of Congo in an ongoing artistic process that includes digital and analog paintings and drawings, experimental videos and performances. Through its everyday engagement with the radically different effects of planetary forces on local realities, it has developed a highly subjective approach to contemporary issues of globalization, postcolonialism, and interculturality. Their specific collaboration makes it difficult to categorize and classify them according to binary notions of cultural context, artistic traditions and geographical origin.
24.07.24, 18:30
English
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