Logo says 'To Be -- Named.'
Logo says 'To Be -- Named.'
Logo says 'To Be -- Named.'
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  • Recovering is written in gold and Voices is written in orange.
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Nnenna Onuoha

Nnenna Onuoha

Nnenna Onuoha is a Ghanaian-Nigerian researcher, filmmaker and artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her films and videos centre Afrodiasporic voices to explore monumental silences surrounding the histories and afterlives of colonialism across West Africa, Europe and the US, asking: how do we remember, which pasts do we choose to perform and why?  A second strand of her work focuses on archiving Black experience in the present to chronicle how, amidst all this, we practice care and repair for ourselves and each other. Her work has shown at the Galerie im Turm, the Kunsverein Hamburg, the Brückemuseum, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the Galerie im Körnerpark and alpha nova and galerie futura. Nnenna is currently a doctoral researcher in Media Anthropology at Harvard University and Global History at the University of Potsdam. She is also a 2023-4 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow.

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Rows

The series Rows is a body of work comprising braided maps and sound compositions. Rows I centers the M-Straße in Berlin, Germany, and the status of various campaigns to rename it due to the racist nature of the m-word as well as the street’s connections to histories of enslavement, whiles Rows II explores the 17 other M-Streets located throughout Germany. The accompanying audio is composed of sounds that the artist has recorded around the street over the past 5 years, including trains entering the U-Bahn station, and pedestrians walking past, but also sounds of protest, memorial marches, and walking tours, that have taken place along the street, as well as interviews with scholars and activists involved in the renaming debate.

braided hair forms diagrams of streets against white gallery walls.