Wash Day
Three Afrodescendent women living in Berlin go through their wash day routines and rituals. As they care for their hair: choosing products, washing, detangling, braiding, cutting, dyeing etc. they discuss how their relationship to it has changed over the years.
Year: 2021
Length: 27′ (single-channel), 12′ (3-channel)
Format: HD, stereo and 5.1
Languages: English
Subtitles: English, German
Exhibition:
Hairtelling – Past, Present, Future. Black Art Action. Berlin, DE. 2021.
Between the Cracks. arebyte gallery. London, UK. 2021.
Cala Blanca. Festpiele Plötzensee. Strandbad Plötzensee. Berlin, DE. 2021.
A F T E R L I V E S. Galerie im Turm. Berlin, DE. 2022-3.
Exhibitions:
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.
