Exhibition Opening with artist talk (Akinbode Akinbiyi) and livestream. Opening 6pm, talk moderated by Muhammad Salah Abdulaziz from 8pm in Oyoun’s garden

Meandering, wandering, amongst densely woven threads. It’s the way things, life, pans out, in the constant wandering, the constant searching for meaning, the never ending paths, roads, lanes, highways, byways, labyrinthian in their endlessness, in their calling out to the wanderer, here, yet another intriguing corner, footprints faint on the earth, silent vibrational traces on the relentless pavements. 1996 was such a year. The sad, devastating news of the passing. A young neophyte working out on a discarded keyboard. Akinbode Akinbiyi is known to reflect an array of erased and subalternated narratives in his black and white photographs Akinbode Akinibiyi wanders, wonders and documents a loss as personal as it is collective in "May Ayim: Dichterin. 1996." Almost as if capturing silence, the Nigerian-British Berliner moves with lightness through a space as heavy as the funeral of a beloved, a friend, a writer that almost three decades later will have made history as big as the gap left behind by transcending.

The exhibition presents a delicate collection carefully selected from Akinbiyi’s personal archival images of 1996, documenting and mourning - and celebrating the timelessness of May Ayim's work and its disclosure of undeniably uncomfortable truths.
"May Ayim: Dichterin. 1996." is part of rongin shagor, an artistic intervention connecting a number of multidisciplinary and multilingual artists to a poem by May Ayim.
The project rongin shagor is developed as part of "dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions" of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) with funding by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) through the NEUSTART KULTUR programme and the Senate of Berlin’s Department for Culture and Europe.

Exhibition on display from 11th to 30th June, 12-8pm