In the complex tangle of past and present the catalogue reflects on questions of temporality
as well as the possibility of engaging with old and new liberation movements.The catalogue
raises questions of the political circumstances that move contemporary artists to resort to
those non-European avant-gardes that formed as a counterpart of the dominant Western modernism
from the 1920s to the 1970s. What are the potentials artists see in the ties to decolonial
avant-gardes in Africa Asia and the "Black Atlantic" region to take a stand against current
forms of racism fundamentalism or neocolonialism? Text: Nana Adusei-Poku Zeigam Azizov
Saloni Mathur Matthias Michalka Lina Ramadan.