Exhibition: Contra la Raza [Against Race], Matadero Madrid (Jun–Nov 2021)
A multidisciplinary initiative incorporates a video-based installation and live programme within the framework of PHotoESPAÑA 2021
Exhibition Booklet
Artworks / Artist Bios
Against Race focusing on futuristic imaginaries expressed through poetics of the Black experience that generate new forms of global and egalitarian humanism. Matadero’s dark, soaring Nave 0 hosts a multimedia installation of Relic Traveller by Larry Achiampong, alongside a group screening of audiovisual works by artists including Ramone Anderson, Rubén H. Bermúdez, Sally Fenoux Barleycorn, Amartey Golding, Jérôme Havre, Julianknxx, Katia Kameli, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Grada Kilomba, Mónica de Miranda, Nástio Mosquito, Paulo Nazareth, Heidi Ramírez, Sara Sadik, Berni Searle, Cauleen Smith, Camille Turner and Belinda Zhawi.
Contra la Raza [Against Race], installation views, Matadero Madrid, 2021. Courtesy of Matadero Madrid and The Showroom, London. Photos: Lukasz Michalak
A live programme from 29-31 October 2021 curated by Katherine Finerty in collaboration with Raúl Muñoz de la Vega, invites you to meet some of the artists participating in the project through screenings, conversations and performances.
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Live Programme Brochure
The live programme included:
The first-ever screening of Larry Achiampong’s full Relic Traveller series to date, accompanied by an online artist talk with Curator-at-Large Katherine Finerty exploring decolonial narratives about identity, migration, technology and agency.
Project screening and conversations Taxidermy of the Future curated by Bruno Leitão and Paula Nascimento, bringing together works by artists Kiluanji Kia Henda, Grada Kilomba, and Mónica de Miranda that dissect persistent spectres in both European and African societies (Commissioned and produced by FAS – For Arts Sake)
Artist talk Collective Geopoetics with Contra la Raza Curator Elvira Dyangani Ose and artists Sally Fenaux Barleycorn and Heidi Ramírez, moderated by photographer and professor Rubén H. Bermudez highlighting Spain-based artist collectives through works by
Performances of SOUTH X SOUTH EAST by Belinda Zhawi combining poetry and sound to explore the emotional landscape of youth migration whilst interrogating what it means to forge identities based on geographies
Contra la Raza [Against Race] live programme, Matadero Madrid, 2021. Courtesy of Matadero Madrid and The Showroom, London. Photos: Fernando Tribiño
Contra la Raza [Against Race], installation views, Matadero Madrid, 2021. Courtesy of Matadero Madrid and The Showroom, London. Photos: Lukasz Michalak
June 3 to November 28 2021
Tuesday to Thursday from 5pm to 9pm
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 12noon to 9pm
Nave 0
Matadero Madrid
Centro de Creación Contemporánea
Plaza de Legazpi, 8