Chapter II. Refusal / Apat

CHAPTER II. REFUSAL
Raque Ford, Charlotte Houette, David L. Johnson, Dozie Kanu

APAT
Nazira Karimi
at KINO MANHATTAN

Opening
June 19, 2024
6-8 pm

Both Exhibitions
June 20 - July 27, 2024

WASSERGASSE 14
1030 VIENNA. AUSTRIA

Please join us for the openings of Chapter II: Refusal. Raque Ford, Charlotte Houette, David L. Johnson, Dozie Kanu and Nazira Karimi at KINO MANHATTAN on Wednesday June 19, 2024 from 6-8 pm.

CHAPTER II. REFUSAL
Raque Ford, Charlotte Houette, David L. Johnson, Dozie Kanu

Chapter II. Refusal is the second iteration amongst a series of three exhibitions that explore different ways in which artists subvert the audience’s gaze to reveal hidden, coded and cannibalised imagery. This exhibition unites the practices of Raque Ford, Charlotte Houette, David L. Johnson and Dozie Kanu and presents a collection of works that fold in on themselves, their surroundings and deliberately evade systems of regulation.

“There’s a vibration, a subtle and fragile heat, that makes a living being particularily delicious. You’re extracting life by the mouthful. It’s the pleasure of knowing that because of your intent, your actions, this being has ceased to exist. It’s the feeling of a complex and precious organism expiring little by little, and also becoming part of you. For always, I find this miracle fascinating. This possibility of an indissoluble union.”
– Agustina Bazterrica, Tender is the Flesh

Nazira Karimi’s Apat will open at the same time at KINO MANHATTAN.

Using found footage alongside Karimi’s family’s archives, Apat tells the artist’s personal history growing up in the civil war in Tajikistan in the 1990s.
Apat both mirrors the coming of age and independence of a people and the region as well as looks into questions of extinction, in relation to colonization and the post-colonized existence; resulting in natural disasters, cultural damage and the extinction of the memory.