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Of Seas, Slave Ships and Fractured Atlases.
A Prelude to a Possible Essay on Histerio-Poiesis in Theo Eshetu’s Practice
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The Law of the Sea (The Slave Ship), 2015
video installation
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Kiss the Moment, 2015, 18-channel video installation with sound, duration: 40:08 min
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The Return of the Axum Obelisk (2009), fifteen channel video installation, colour, sound, duration: 26:45 min
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Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (1500)
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Albrecht Dürer, Katherina the Moor Woman (1521)
Rembrandt, Two Negroes (1661)
Hyacinthe Rigaud, Young Black (1697)
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Peter Paul Rubens, Four Studies of a Head of a Moor (1614–1616)
Hans Burgkmair, Exotic Tribe (1508-1570)
Hyacinthe Rigaud, Young Black (1697)
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Seikilos epitaph
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Benin Bronzes
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Atlas Fractured, 2017, digital video projected on banner
documenta 14
Digital Companion
An Ongoing- Offcoming Tale by Bonventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
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