© Chris Schwagga, 2022 - SHMH, Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte© Chris Schwagga, 2022 - SHMH, Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte

POWER. MEANS. MONEY. Image as Currency? Currency as Image!

Exhibition

20.05. – 15.08.2022

Friday, 20 May 2022

Mon: 10.00 am – 5.00 pm; Wed – Fri: 10.00 am – 5.00 pm; Sat – Sun: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm
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POWER. MEANS. MONEY. Image as Currency? Currency as Image!
Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg—Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte
Holstenwall 24, 20355 Hamburg
20.5. – 15.8.2022
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The Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte (MHG) presents an installation by Mexican-German curator Yolanda Gutiérrez, Rwandan photographer Chris Schwagga, and dancer Eva Lomby, which employs the languages of dance and photography to engage with artifacts selected from the museum’s collections. Inspired by the theme of the Triennial of Photography Hamburg and in particular by the MHG’s numismatic holdings of colonial coins, the performance will set these objects in motion via a dance intervention and photographic documentation of the performance. Schwagga will also respond to Lomby’s contribution as a source of inspiration drawn from the expressive power of the body. Several contexts will be engaged by this collaboration: historical, (post-)colonial, cultural, social, aesthetic, and technical. At the same time, Schwagga takes up the view of the formerly colonized to consider the meaning and function these coins had, and for whom. The project also engages the various economic, social, and cultural effects of the introduction of colonial currency into the former colony of German East Africa, offering a set of alternative perspectives that shed a different light on history. 

Curated by Yolanda Gutiérrez.

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