Exhibition

Christian Nyampeta: Words after the World

29 Sep 2017 – 14 Jan 2018

Regular hours

Friday
11:00 – 18:00
Saturday
11:00 – 18:00
Sunday
11:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
11:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 18:00
Thursday
11:00 – 21:00

Cost of entry

Free

Save Event: Christian Nyampeta: Words after the World14

I've seen this1

People who have saved this event:

close

Camden Art Centre

London
England, United Kingdom

Address

Travel Information

  • 13
  • Finchley Road, Hampstead
Directions via Google Maps Directions via Citymapper
Event map

Rwandan-born Dutch artist Christian Nyampeta (b. 1981) works across art, design and theory in an ongoing enquiry into ways of living together.

About

Words after the World is an exhibition which builds on Nyampeta’s recent residency at Camden Arts Centre. During this time, Nyampeta hosted a scriptorium, in which he convened a working group to translate Francophone texts by philosophers such as Alexis Kagame and Maniragaba Balibutsa. This collective structure led to the production of the script for Nyampeta’s new film, which conveys a fictional writer attempting to complete a novella at a time when the use of existing words is restricted by copyright: as a result, the writer is compelled to craft new words in order to avoid both silence and persecution.

Nyampeta’s film is presented in Gallery 3 within an installation that he describes as a ‘hosting structure’. This encompasses murals across the gallery walls, furniture constructions, and a dossier reflecting on the process of producing the film script. Nyampeta creates a space for the study of the making and the communion of knowledge. He asks: what happens if words and meaning were subjected to prohibition? What synonyms could be created to replace them? The working group will continue to convene, to translate and to publish throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Christian Nyampeta

Comments

Have you been to this event? Share your insights and give it a review below.