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  • Sandra Mujinga, I Build My Skin With Rocks, 2022, HD video on LED wall, color, sound, 1 hour 28 seconds.

    Sandra Mujinga, I Build My Skin With Rocks, 2022, HD video on LED wall, color, sound, 1 hour 28 seconds.

    Sandra Mujinga

    Hamburger Bahnhof

    Sandra Mujinga’s “IBMSWR: I Build My Skin With Rocks” functions as a portal into worlds beyond those prescribed by Western ideologies. The installation from which the exhibition takes its title occupies the upper half of Hamburger Bahnhof’s Historische Halle with a twenty-nine-by-thirteen-foot screen that extends across the front of a huge black wooden sculpture. It shows footage of a hybrid creature that gradually morphs in free-flowing movements from humanoid to abstract and pixelated stonelike patterns. An accompanying soundscape composed by the artist fills the space with solemn acoustics.

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