Multimedia Exhibition
Two young Namibian artists have collaborated to produce a multimedia exhibition that explores the denial of the ambiguousness of monuments in post ‘colonial’ Windhoek, and addresses the political complexities and patriarchal significances of the sites.
Nelago Shilongo and Shomwatale Shivute conducted a performative-photographic research at the Rider Memorial (Reiterdenkmal) located in Alte Feste, Curt von François monument in front of the City of Windhoek headquarters and the War Memorial to the fallen Schutztruppe in Zoo Park. There, the performer and photographer seek to express the legitimacy of the black ‘womxn’, whose narrative is a heroic one of survival and questioning.
The exhibition displays the denial of the ambiguousness of monuments in post ‘colonial’ Windhoek and addresses the political complexities and patriarchal significance of the sites.
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