news ‘Intraspective’ by Michael Sayles – curated by our GoSee Friend Eric D. Clark

The fun continue’s : GALLERY WEEKEND in Berlin ! We have a very special and also very personal tip for you :

For this installment of SPOTLIGHT, an occasional program for exceptional projects, SETAREH will be presenting a survey of three decades of work by Berlin-based artist Michael Sayles. This first mini-Intraspective exhibition, curated by longtime friend and collaborator Eric D.Clark, is a “window into the mind of ‘Afropean’ culture.”

“Sayles’ work delves into… NO! IS the repatriation of a cultural appropriation practiced throughout modern times by the likes of many popular visual artists from the 15th to 20th centuries; specifically art of African descent. Everything his work represents is a mirror to culture shamelessly stolen in the tenets or rather edicts of so-called ‘discovery’? The bringing of civilization to the already civilized… subjugate a people by removing their identity, culture and the spoils of said endeavors; one might think of the Benin Bronzes as an example; a...

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