Haiti-based Atis Rezistans presents a multimedia set up, artist residencies, performances, screenings, and discussions in Kassel, Germany. In “documenta15: Set up View,” C& América Latina presents a spectacular photograph gallery of works of the Atis Rezistans – Ghetto Biennale at documenta15. [Here are just two of the installation views.]
Earlier this month, in her “Documenta 15 Diary: Past Borders,” Emily Watlington (Artwork in America) wrote about documenta 15:
[. . .] There are additionally mentions of offsite, far-flung initiatives funded via the collective useful resource pot, just like the Ghetto Biennale in downtown Port-au-Prince placed on by the Haitian group Atis Rezistans. Their set up of Voodoo sculptures made partially with human bones, on view in a Catholic church known as St. Kunigundis, is a must-see if in Kassel.
But loads of work artists are placing on beneath the framework of this present isn’t on view on this German metropolis, and it gained’t ever be. Documenta 15 oozes past any institutional or nationwide borders, and acknowledges that creating artwork objects, then sentencing them to a white dice, the place they’re separated from actual life, is a latest, Western concept. The present wasn’t made just for these with the passports and privilege to get to Germany. Maybe that is the one technique to have a really international exhibition.
For extra by Watlington, see https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/options/documenta-15-diary-atis-rezistans-jatiwangi-art-factory-1234632305/