Trans-historic arts and education project featuring interdisciplinary artistic interventions
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Ovizire.Somgu: From Where Do We Speak? is an art and history exhibition project focusing on the complexities of German-Namibian entangled histories.
Drawing from its title ‘Ovizire’, a word from the Otjiherero language, and ‘Somgu’ in Khoekhoegowab, which in everyday use can be translated to mean ‘shadow’ or ‘aura’, this cross-disciplinary exhibition proposes a critical reading of the colonial photographic archive through its gaps and shadows.
At its centre, ‘Ovizire ∙ Somgu’ interrogates colonial representations, the colonial gaze and legacies of power embedded in the landscape that continues to dominate or silence counter-histories and diverse voices.
In particular it brings to the surface the uneven remembrance of the colonial genocide (1904-1908). Consisting of video installation, photography, mixed-media collage, soundscape, sculpture and performance interventions, the works exhibited have emerged out of an ongoing conversation and creative collaboration between artists, curators and scholars in Namibia and Germany in 2018 and 2019.
