2024 – Digital Photography, Archive material, Text Installation, Sculpture
In Childpose, home is observed through a critical lens, where traces of colonial continuities are embedded in the infrastructure, architecture, the artists socialisation. Her brief childhood in Kenya is materially called to mind, the school districts close to her family home embodying the central playground: yellow schoolbuses, wearing itchy grey and blue wool uniforms, english being the national language, corporal punishment. Lesos, Kenya at times echoes outdated aspects of the west. She questions the remnants, dwelling on the saying ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’, which she grew up hearing, what it means to be a first born daughter in a black household and what it means to be a black family in the suburbs in Germany. In Childpose the questions are not necessarily answered, but given room to exist.
