Rumours that Maji was a lie...

Kapwani Kiwanga
Rumours that Maji was a lie..., 2014
Mixed-media installation,
Variable Dimensions

In this installation the artist treats the voids present in living memory, as well as the material traces of the Maji Maji War; an anti-colonial uprising which took place between 1905 and 1907 in present-day Tanzania. The installation centres around a shelving system, which functions simultaneously as a storage unit, an exhibiting structure and a projection machine. It embodies storytelling in the form of a subjective archive through which Kiwanga questions the act of organising and categorising, rejecting any illusion of totality or exhaustiveness when treating historic events.