Opening The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis

The exhibition The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis will be opened on Saturday 25 May.

PROGRAMME OPENING

- 16.00: Word of welcome by Annie Fletcher, curator (auditorium);
- 16.10: Speech by Anjalika Sagar en Kodwo Eshun.

THE EXHIBITION

The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven presents the first large scale solo exhibition of The Otolith Group; the artist’s collective with Anjalika Sagar (London, 1968) and Kodwo Eshun (London, 1966). The exhibition will survey their practice over ten years, presenting eight compelling narrative films and two installations. The Otolith Group’s work weaves together many strands of imagination speculation about past and future including science fiction, postcolonial history, music and scientific discovery.

The exhibition is named after the Xenogenesis Trilogy by the pioneering African American female science fiction novelist Octavia E. Butler. Her award winning novels investigated questions of human extinction, racial distinction, planetary transformation, enforced mutation, generative alienation and altered kinship.