Aerolectics - Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński

Based on the material metaphor of the Insubric Line, a juncture formed by the meeting of the African and European plates, Kazeem-Kamiński explores the intertwining of history and the present, particularly in relation to the African context.
Inspired by the story of Asue*, a young African girl who involuntarily arrived at the Ursuline convent in Bruneck/Brunico in January 1855 due to the missionary system, Kazeem-Kamiński unfolds a polyphonic and multimedia narrative. It intensively examines the colonial past and raises questions about the present. The focus is on the artistic examination of how violence manifests itself in the geological layers and is deposited through the interaction of the elements - rock, fire, water and air. While at the same time searching for ways of reparative ancestral work that explores the possibilities of healing and remembering. 

Kazeem-Kamiński's practice is characterised by autoethnographic approaches and oscillations between artistic research and critical text and image production. Influenced by Black feminist thinkers, writers and image producers, she has developed an artistic practice that utilises the media of video, photography, performance and text to explore the polyphonic stories of the African diaspora, particularly in German-speaking countries. Her works move between documentation and fiction and question not only the presence of Black people in European historiography, but also their visibility in the physical European landscape and in public spaces.