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A bowl rests on the flat of a hand, a hand of stone. In the course of her research in Museum Folkwang’s collections, artist Otobong Nkanga selected an object that brings together many stories and questions. This is no article of everyday use; this image of a human hand itself holds an object, a bowl or disc. What statement is this hand’s gesture supposed to convey: showing, holding, offering? The hand seems to have been broken off a statue and bears burn marks at the end of the arm. The artist has chosen an enigmatic, ambiguous object. She then created drawings, photographs, objects and exhibition furniture for her installation in Museum Folkwang that tell true and conceivably true stories relating to the hand.
Otobong Nkanga was invited by Kunststiftung NRW as part of the 25/25/25 Project to create a portrait of Museum Folkwang and present this in poster form.
January 23 - May 18, 2015
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
