Leo Asemota (Reaching Out To The Tender Mother)
Installation view, ifa Gallery, Berlin
Photo: © 2019 Victoria Tomaschko

Findings Through Principles of Phrenology, Literature, Sound and Advertising

As is wont when working alongside curators Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Elena Aguido, Asemota provides a selection of material among his findings and from conversations and exchanges with the curators. These materials, though not necessarily intended for an exhibition project, are described as an invitation to think with him on the concerns of the curatorial enquiry

Works:

(diptych)

2019

Media: Archival inkjet prints in artist’s frames

Dimensions: 21 x 29.7 cm; 24.5 x 19 cm

(ultrasanity anecdotes sound fractions)

2019

Media: Fifteen sound tracks, record sleeve and archival inkjet print*

Dimensions: 32 x 32 cm; 30.5 x 24.4 cm

*Archival inkjet print: Line engraving by M. Greuter, c. 1600 “A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed”.

(Reaching Out To The Tender Mother)

2019

Media: Porcelain and red bricks

Dimensions: 14 x 18 x 39 cm; 36 x 36 x 106 cm

Primitive Art; “Psychoanalysis and Primitive Art”

2019

Media: Reading matter, graphite on paper

Dimensions: 45 x 0.4 x 17.8 cm

CARTE BLANCHE

Included a recital from "All the Things You Could Be by Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother: Psychoanalysis and Race” by Hortense J. Spillers during the Invocations program that was held on Saturday 25 January 2020.

Exhibition:

Ultrasanity: On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry and Resistance

ifa-Gallery Berlin 14 December 2019 - 9 February 2020
SAVVY Contemporary 15 December 2019 - 25 January 2020

Invocations:

SAVVY Contemporary

Saturday 25 January 2020

Curated by Elena Aguido and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Co-curator:

A project by SAVVY Contemporary in collaboration with ifa Gallery Berlin, the Association of Neuroesthetics, the Gnaoua Festival (Morocco) and Picha Art Lubumbashi (DRC)

Ultrasanity: On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry and Resistance

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