EAN: 9783969121917

GUSTORF OLIVER KOERNER VON KENSISE ANDERS

Kensise Anders prods us with her crochet needle to confront the reality of Black people's
lives. Born in Haiti  she was adopted by a pastor and his family from northern Germany when she
was two and "raised" by force. She escaped their violence and abuse for a psychiatric hospital
then a boarding school  and eventually found art. Since then  she has used crocheting to work
through the oppression and discipline she suffered. She creates masks with which she ironically
appropriates white identities and play carpets that show the world of her childhood-apartment
blocks  streets  the "hole " as she calls this environment. She also arranges crocheted threads
on the canvas as though they were brushstrokes. One series of pictures is dedicated to a Black
doll  another  to naked female bodies  including the artist's own  with references to Courbet's
L'Origine du monde (1866). The works are acts of resistance to the prudishness of whites. Black
dolls became popular in this country during the colonial era and never quite went away  like
the racism in our society and in our heads. Anders's weapon against that racism is the crochet
needle  which she wields patiently and with flair as well as the necessary radicalism.

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