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Kapwani Kiwanga

Structural Adjustments

Kapwani Kiwanga is a Canadian-born, Paris-based artist who creates installations, performances, and video art that bring together her training in anthropology and comparative religions, while also drawing on her interest in history, memory, and mythology. Kiwanga deliberately mixes truth and fiction in her work, confusing the two in order to create fantastical narratives that are nonetheless rooted in rigorous research. This book presents works by Kiwanga investigating disciplinary architectures that were presented at the Logan Center Gallery at the University of Chicago and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto. Opening with a compelling array of installation images, research documents, and film stills from a newly commissioned video, the book also includes a curatorial essay surveying Kiwanga’s work to date, an essay that offers an unfinished cartography of the genealogy of disciplinary spaces, and an interview with Kiwanga that covers her research interests and methodology.

80 pages | 70 color plates, 30 halftones | 6 x 8 | © 2018

Art: Art--General Studies


Reviews

Kapwani Kiwanga | 2017 Frieze Artist Award

Kapwani Kiwanga | Frieze Artist Award

Table of Contents

Foreword
Bill Michel, Gaëtane Verna
 
Reenacting Histories
Yesomi Umolu
 
“IT CAN BE BROKEN DOWN.”
A Conversation between Kapwani Kiwanga and Carolin Köchling
 
REFLECTIONS ON THE AUTHORITY OF ARCHITECTURE, OR A BRIEF AND UNFINISHED CARTOGRAPHY OF DISCIPLINARY SPACES
 
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