Hodi! Call and Response
Artist Talk with Rehema Chachage and Valerie Asiimwe Amani

Friday, 23 May 2025 | 6 pm

In Kiswahili, the word Hodi announces a visitor at the door. The participation of artists Rehema Chachage and Valerie Asiimwe in the exhibition AMANI kukita | kung’oa (15/02–09/06/2025) can be understood as just such a visit. But what kind of responses do we expect when we invite artists to take part in a provenance research project? Might it not involve entirely different ways of questioning, remembering, and speaking about colonial history – ones that go beyond what can be explored through academic research?

Presale 12€ including exhibition entry | Box office 15€ | Free for pupils and students
The event will be held in English

Valerie Asiimwe Amani is a Tanzanian anti-disciplinary artist and writer, working between the tangible and the embodied. Her practice is informed by the permeability between the political, domestic and intimate realms. She has exhibited internationally and is the recipient of the 2023 Foundwork Art Prize and the 2022 Ingram Prize. Her writing and work have been published in The Architectural Review, Texte Zur Kunst, Art Monthly and Hyperallergic. She is currently pursuing a practice-led PhD at The Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford, England. @ardonaxela

Rehema Chachage is a Tanzanian artist, writer, and art-based researcher. Rooted in divergent and decolonial perspectives, her research-based, process-oriented, and community-centred practice focuses on alternative and non-canonised knowledge, with an emphasis on community-centred and -generated knowledge forms; on togetherness and community-building as a means of survival; on forms of subversion and refusal that emerge from the mundane and every-day; and on the idea of continuity through citation, naming, and renaming, arguing citation as a means for repair, re-membering, and, more importantly, refusing erasure. @rehemachachage