Clarita Maria –  trajectories: nakabili, rhodesia?

Clarita Maria is a Zambian born interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Kassel and Cologne. She studied photography and media art at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Her artistic work critically engages with dominant historical narratives, and explores the entanglements between transnational identity, memory and the archive. She has exhibited her work  in a range of contexts such as at the Dior Photography and Visual Arts for her Award for Young Talents in LUMA Arles (France), the Bamako Biennale in Mali, the German Photo Book Award, and the European Media Art Festival among others.

The exhibition, Trajectories: nakabili, Rhodesia?, features a mixed media installation titled nakabili, Rhodesia?, that offers insights into clarita maria’s ongoing research project on memory and place within the geographic and political context of Zambia. The work visually maps out the (hangovers, and) effects of large-scale investment projects on both the ecological landscape and social relations in the country, where copper continues to be the primary extractive commodity.

This exhibition is a product of the collective efforts and labour of love from the collaborators below. It is generously supported and funded by the KINS collective- a trio of Black African and Afro-German artists, whose praxis is rooted in creating inclusive and accessible community-driven art spaces in Leipzig and Kassel.

Collaborators: Nomaswazi Mthombeni, Noah Joao Osarenren, Gladys Kalichini, Clarita Maria.