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With When Disaster Strikes, the Kunsthalle Münster is showing works by British artist Dominique White for the first time in Germany. White’s works play with memory and metamorphosis. In their unpredictable forms, the vanished finds its way into the rooms of the Kunsthalle. The sculptures represent the materialisation of black life beyond its subjective boundaries, as lighthouses or vessels of an ignored civilisation.
Dominique White deals with blackness in its conceptual and material implications. Her works are abstract sculptures that look as if they have been taken from the Atlantic – monuments to an underwater nation made up of enslaved people who have sunk. In her work, the artist takes up various legends that take place in the depths of the water and have their roots there. In the nowhere below sea level, inhabited by the ghostly ruins of Black Lives, there exists a …
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Image above: Dominique White, Zero Is My Country, 2021, courtesy Kunsthalle Münster.
