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until 02.11. | #4378ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from 07. September 2024 (Opening: 06.09.) the exhibition Ya-bunanma-m-a-ta-ta: WHAT I SEE WHEN I DREAM by the artist Elyla.
Elyla (Nicaragua, 1989), will have their first solo show Ya-bunanma-m-a-ta-ta: WHAT I SEE WHEN I DREAM at Galerie Barbara Thumm after participating this year in the 60th Venice Biennale curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
Throughout their career, the artist has researched into ancestral communal practices from their home region of Chontales (Nicaragua) and from the Pacific Coast, to explore performance and ritual through their popular manifestations and at the intersection with queerness, seeking to activate an anticolonial and decolonial praxis.
The exhibition’s starting point is the controversial practice of cock-fighting. The cock, observed through its potent associations with uninhibited masculinity, becomes the symbolic and formal device through which a quasi-alchemical process is activated whereby gender and societal norms are subverted.
Opening: Friday, 06. September, 2024, 18 – 21 Uhr
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 07. September– Saturday, 02. November 2024
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Titler image caption: Lengger-Gallo Gallina, 2024, film still. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm
Exhibition Elyla – Galerie Barbara Thumm | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
