FATOU KANDE SENGHOR(SENEGAL) and JOHANNA DOMKE (DK) ARTIST Presentation on THURSDAY EVENING

FATOU KANDE SENGHOR(SENEGAL) and JOHANNA DOMKE (DK)

who will be giving a short presentation of their practice together with a small pre-cap of their collaborative work.  This work in progress will continue in Joal, Senegal and is destined for the Dak’art Biennial in May and My World Images Festival 2010.

Thursday 28th JAN at 20.30 - 22.00

Our intentions with these small presentations is to create dialogue on diversity, identity,otherness in relation to their practice with photography and video as medium.  

Fatou Kande Senghor works a great deal with rituals in Senegal. Johanna and Fatou  are developing a really intrinsic photographic installation piece 'Grandma's room' in Residency in January at SVHK. In April, they will continue to develop a short video/film 'Man Kenenki' that they will shoot in Dakar if all goes well. The video is based on a documentary and fictive interpretation of the Leopold Senghor's  twins/grandsons of the former President of Senegal. The twins have lived very different lives, even though they grew up together in the States.  In his twenties, one of the twins returns to Senegal to rejoin his family and search out his traditions as a Senegalese and muslim while the second twin remains in the States, and only returns much later to his own sentiment of alienation to his history and cultural belonging. He is accepted because of his look alike features with his twin, wishes to mirror his brother's closeness , and at the same time, feels the distance of it all.

Please RSVP. at michelle.eistrup@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.

Best Wishes

MICHELLE & KAN SI

Artistic Coordination

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BIO

Fatou Kande is working with photography, video and printing. She is part of that generation raised with television, hip hop, techno , music videos and digital technology. She is from a fast-forward generation, but yet she knows how to catch her breath and a slower pace to print her images about sensuality, consciousness, preoccupations of her continent and this world. She believes in creating with tools of her time and the spirit of her moment in history. She is convinced that art in Africa is an efficient weapon to address and resolve issues that concern Africans, and touch others in the world. 

Johanna Domke´s approach to work with film/video is about walking the line between authenticity and fictionalization in order to talk about our construction of reality and its representation as image. Her practice derives from an observing origin and a fascination in social/urban contexts, focusing on the individual in relation to its social environment, public space and power structures. Her work implies both documentary and fictional strategies of filmmaking, resulting in a mixture of hyperrealism and artificiality. She creates a plane of references to reality which has fiction discernibly woven into it. She is not interested in purely documentary films, but often borrows their conventions, that she uses as potential for fictionalization.