One-way conversation 1
(Image used: British soldiers assist police searching for Mau Mau members in Kariobangi, Kenya, 1954. Photograph: popperfoto/Getty Images)
(Text used: extract from the article "The Humboldt forum and colonial robbery by Deutschland funk, quoting Museum director Lars-Christian Koch)
One-way conversation 2
(Image used: British soldiers assist police searching for Mau Mau members in Kariobangi, Kenya, 1954. Photograph: popperfoto/Getty Images)
(Text used: extract from the article "The Humboldt forum and colonial robbery by Deutschland funk, quoting German historian Hermann Parzinger)
One-way conversation 3
(Image used: British soldiers inspecting the MauMau in Kenya)
(Text used: extract from the article "Berlin's Humboldt Forum launches with unanswered questions" by Dw.com, quoting German politician Monika Grütters)
One-way conversation 4
(Image used: British soldiers inspecting the MauMau in Kenya)
(Text used: extract from the article "Repatriation: why Western museums should return African artefacts" by Museum Next, quoting the International Council of Museums)
One-way conversation 5
(Image used: British soldiers assist police searching for Mau Mau members in Kariobangi, Kenya, 1954. Photograph: popperfoto/Getty Images)
(Text used: extract from the feature "Africa’s stolen treasure. Is it time to give them back?" by Dw.com)
One-way conversation 6
(Image used: British soldiers assist police searching for Mau Mau members in Kariobangi, Kenya, 1954. Photograph: popperfoto/Getty Images)
(Text used: extract from the feature "Africa’s stolen treasure. Is it time to give them back?" by Dw.com, quoting Carol Lentz anthropologist and president of the Goethe Institute Germany)
One-way conversation 7
(Image used: British soldiers inspecting the MauMau in Kenya)
(Text used: extract from the article "Africa’s Stolen Art Debate Is Frozen in Time" by Foreign Policy, stating Western institutions’ rebuttal against timely restitution.)
One-way conversation 8
(Image used: British soldiers inspecting the MauMau in Kenya)
(Text used: extract from the article "Africa’s Stolen Art Debate Is Frozen in Time" by Foreign Policy, quoting German explorer Richard Kandt who wrote to the director of Berlin’s Ethnological Museum in 1897.)
DISCUSSIONS COLLECTION:
A series of works where I highlight and question types and the needs for discussions based on situations that involve various dynamics of oppression.
ONE-WAY CONVERSATION EDITION:
As a part of the collection, this edition consists of works that seek to highlight blatant one-way conversations being held by "former" colonial powers in regards to the return of stolen cultural pieces from their colonies. Specifically looking at the current, ridiculous and obviously, one-sided and disrespectful "conversations" happening within Germany that seem to blatantly ignore the harsh realities of colonialism.
