The A-Team
Over the phone, thirteen friends reminisce about their Ghanaian high school’s exchange trip to Jackson, Mississippi a decade earlier. The more they remember, the uncannier it becomes. Comprised of a mix of black and blurry images, the visuals mimic the group’s memory blocks and uncertainties, as well as those moments that they struggle to confront from the present day.
Year: 2021
Length: 17′
Format: HD, stereo, 3-channel and 1-channel versions available
Languages: English
Recording, Animation, Edit: Nnenna Onuoha
Production: Sensory Ethnography Lab
Support: ANIDOX Lab, Sound Image Culture, Berlin Senate Grant for Women in Film and Video
Exhibitions:
Mutual Matters – Goldrausch 2021. Fahrbereitschaft, Haubrok Foundation. Berlin, DE. 2021.
A F T E R L I V E S. Galerie im Turm. Berlin, DE. 2022-3.
The Educational Web. Kunstverein Hamburg. 2023.
Exhibitions:
Mutual Matters – Goldrausch 2021. Fahrbereitschaft, Haubrok Foundation. Berlin, DE. 2021.
A F T E R L I V E S. Galerie im Turm. Berlin, DE. 2022-3.
‘How do I explain that I remember feelings more than I’m remembering the facts?‘
–Mehitabel ‘Metty‘ Markwei in The A-Team
During the exhibition AFTERLIVES, Nnenna Onuoha shows four of her recent video works. Each of them will be presented in an individual display, one after another. Centering Afrodiasporic voices in processes such as collective re-membering, archiving of Black experience and (self-)care, Onuoha approaches histories of colonialism across West Africa, Europe and the United States. By carefully and repeatedly applying these methods, the artist generates histories of the past that can be shared collectively and thus may work as a means to repair.
The Educational Web. Kunstverein Hamburg. DE. 2023.
