https://kervin-saintpere.com Kervin Saint Pere Huarcaya Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:46:44 +0000 https://kervin-saintpere.com en https://kervin-saintpere.com/Home Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:05:28 +0000 Kervin Saint Pere Huarcaya https://kervin-saintpere.com/Home <img width="6871" height="4586" width_o="6871" height_o="4586" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f35fda0466401699696d9d712c619a9ffd3dc8a5d5e03746a718f5a8e29a43f/DSC_9970.jpg" data-mid="221494843" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f35fda0466401699696d9d712c619a9ffd3dc8a5d5e03746a718f5a8e29a43f/DSC_9970.jpg" /> <img width="3504" height="4954" width_o="3504" height_o="4954" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9f1fbf27bc704343a534f85b1c86eb67d5615f2ff2d1aff16a52c48ca1a3e00/Wir-sind-alle-kanaken---poster.jpg" data-mid="221494178" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9f1fbf27bc704343a534f85b1c86eb67d5615f2ff2d1aff16a52c48ca1a3e00/Wir-sind-alle-kanaken---poster.jpg" /> <img width="6634" height="4427" width_o="6634" height_o="4427" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1931c30e7e584571e692f3ba1a23160440ad1b63383fcdeacb42739449dcb7b7/DSC_9980.jpg" data-mid="221494541" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1931c30e7e584571e692f3ba1a23160440ad1b63383fcdeacb42739449dcb7b7/DSC_9980.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1281" width_o="1920" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d071415943db8d8523f01c6295c5617740eb87733fadc30098b01d9caa70045/erste-4.jpg" data-mid="221513295" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d071415943db8d8523f01c6295c5617740eb87733fadc30098b01d9caa70045/erste-4.jpg" /> <img width="7015" height="9933" width_o="7015" height_o="9933" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/168fa369af446db8a6e7265c143cd348428f9f9955792d1c6cefde62630b7637/Plakat---Das-Nachleben-des-Kolonialismus_1.jpg" data-mid="221494926" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/168fa369af446db8a6e7265c143cd348428f9f9955792d1c6cefde62630b7637/Plakat---Das-Nachleben-des-Kolonialismus_1.jpg" /> <img width="6650" height="4438" width_o="6650" height_o="4438" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/186f06a4c7d60c7e7fa1db3ad772eb984d230a4ac7c2e8543b4d1f964ce592dc/E.jpg" data-mid="221494836" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/186f06a4c7d60c7e7fa1db3ad772eb984d230a4ac7c2e8543b4d1f964ce592dc/E.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2996" width_o="2000" height_o="2996" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4827e769a9da0deaaee1429f654d7511bc67d9e06a552ae70d79359aeca4e21/Home_Museum-SaintPere_Kervin-3.JPG" data-mid="221494666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4827e769a9da0deaaee1429f654d7511bc67d9e06a552ae70d79359aeca4e21/Home_Museum-SaintPere_Kervin-3.JPG" /> <img width="5906" height="4429" width_o="5906" height_o="4429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6e5b5dd352a3982f419fd376602a8ac2ee4483fdbacd4fdd91e7d3d22347a7f/Nordhorn.jpg" data-mid="224591189" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6e5b5dd352a3982f419fd376602a8ac2ee4483fdbacd4fdd91e7d3d22347a7f/Nordhorn.jpg" /> <img width="4336" height="6497" width_o="4336" height_o="6497" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c044cd7dcd287396d2f1a617e48d3759d2bc5d5bdb19df8b5acac3d4bdb71405/DSC_1168.jpeg" data-mid="241230548" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c044cd7dcd287396d2f1a617e48d3759d2bc5d5bdb19df8b5acac3d4bdb71405/DSC_1168.jpeg" /> <img width="5400" height="7200" width_o="5400" height_o="7200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f38b8abbf3ad52d7888473da7094ab0ed47024f5591c6f0cc2de2652e66b075f/Poster-AmongSavages.jpg" data-mid="221494177" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f38b8abbf3ad52d7888473da7094ab0ed47024f5591c6f0cc2de2652e66b075f/Poster-AmongSavages.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="4961" width_o="3508" height_o="4961" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/453245e542b7188997fe9010db294a60febec6de915530fbe0be7f0a0f9f894c/Bahuan-afiche-Deutsch.jpg" data-mid="221494176" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/453245e542b7188997fe9010db294a60febec6de915530fbe0be7f0a0f9f894c/Bahuan-afiche-Deutsch.jpg" /> https://kervin-saintpere.com/Archives-of-extractivism Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:11:34 +0000 Kervin Saint Pere Huarcaya https://kervin-saintpere.com/Archives-of-extractivism Archives of extractivism Exhibition Förderpreis Junge Kunst 2025 Galerie Reinickendorf This project examines museum archives in Berlin, Vienna, and Hamburg that contain early rubber artefacts collected from the Amazon, both before and after the invention of vulcanisation. These artefacts, such as toys, tools and shoes, reflect Europe’s early scientific and commercial fascination with this previously unknown material, which was brought back by travellers, traders and colonisers. The archives also expose the violent histories behind rubber extraction, tied to genocide, forced labor, and colonial exploitation in regions like Putumayo and the Congo. By categorizing these artifacts within colonial systems of knowledge, the archives document not only the objects themselves but also the appropriation and transformation of Indigenous knowledge, reduced to “raw” or “primitive” materials. The photo series highlights these tensions by showing both the artifacts and their colonial classification structures, layered with imagery from rubber plantations. Together, these “archives of extractivism” reveal how colonial violence, material exploitation, and epistemic dispossession became embedded in archival practices.Some of the ideas in this project on the extractivism of knowledge have already been published in the text&nbsp;‘Epistemic Extractivism’.&nbsp;︎︎︎ <img width="4662" height="6985" width_o="4662" height_o="6985" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a49240584490304f21889e41b5d9a37f1e82f4d18d59dff98fc00435952e6a4a/Abb.-4.jpeg" data-mid="241230243" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a49240584490304f21889e41b5d9a37f1e82f4d18d59dff98fc00435952e6a4a/Abb.-4.jpeg" /> <img width="7304" height="4875" width_o="7304" height_o="4875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8560b46287d5c92869f4782123894a10fae7e806b84b590cf667bcccd0eb28a6/Abb.-4-Detail.jpeg" data-mid="241230242" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8560b46287d5c92869f4782123894a10fae7e806b84b590cf667bcccd0eb28a6/Abb.-4-Detail.jpeg" /> <img width="4682" height="7015" width_o="4682" height_o="7015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b10d1561e2a48f1563c573786dc51dff6c0f6ffa1ac5c88fe3c4b0fb80e899e1/Abb.-5.jpeg" data-mid="241230244" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b10d1561e2a48f1563c573786dc51dff6c0f6ffa1ac5c88fe3c4b0fb80e899e1/Abb.-5.jpeg" /> <img width="7069" height="4718" width_o="7069" height_o="4718" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aaee343d402caebf27e2d21ff29d26ea7eac6939a080c7d1b85fc7331ebd789c/Abb.-6-Detail.jpeg" data-mid="241230237" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aaee343d402caebf27e2d21ff29d26ea7eac6939a080c7d1b85fc7331ebd789c/Abb.-6-Detail.jpeg" /> <img width="7125" height="4755" width_o="7125" height_o="4755" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c35cc85db3fd8e317c7c9aeff7fe72faf128ebad83e13cc0f66753d5464bf3af/Abb.-6.jpeg" data-mid="241230238" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c35cc85db3fd8e317c7c9aeff7fe72faf128ebad83e13cc0f66753d5464bf3af/Abb.-6.jpeg" /> <img width="7360" height="4912" width_o="7360" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b655b5932b2fd28374c28627960e8aa60f1e73f850032fb863c096f7a50ffd50/Ausstellung-sich---Detail.jpeg" data-mid="241230239" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b655b5932b2fd28374c28627960e8aa60f1e73f850032fb863c096f7a50ffd50/Ausstellung-sich---Detail.jpeg" /> https://kervin-saintpere.com/Colonial-Thought-Space Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:39:18 +0000 Kervin Saint Pere Huarcaya https://kervin-saintpere.com/Colonial-Thought-Space Wilhelmshaven as Colonial Thought-Space Exhibition Nordwestkunst Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven 2025 March The ‘colonial space of thought’ in public space is understood as a mental or virtual realm, defined by monuments, sculptures, street names, and architectural artworks. This space is shaped by images encountered in the public sphere—seemingly unstructured, yet governed by the surviving elements of a postcolonial order. The intervention began at the Otto von Bismarck Monument (A1), inaugurated in 2015, which represents a gesture of colonial nostalgia. At this site, the commemorative plaque was covered with a text printed on silk paper that challenged the official narrative about Bismarck’s legacy, especially his role in colonial history. The final point of reference was the Christus and Garrison Church, where two ‘Denkwege Zeichnungen’ were displayed over marble plaques commemorating the ‘heroic death’ of German colonialism. Seven additional plaques were also covered in black felt. Through the act of covering and revealing, a critical space—the ‘colonial space of thought’—is opened, inviting reflection on how discourses and images of violence are normalized in public space. Since public space functions as a site of collective memory that produces cultural values, the gesture emphasizes the impact of these images when encountered repeatedly. By layering texts and drawings, this approach attempts to enter and disrupt the ‘colonial space of thought’, offering alternative Fakten perspectives on history and the representation of the Other. <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87f2b5cb42d857dab95811fd4c72b2fe481eb1480f38f73023d7b7d767f220fa/3-NWK25_-88.jpg" data-mid="229603775" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87f2b5cb42d857dab95811fd4c72b2fe481eb1480f38f73023d7b7d767f220fa/3-NWK25_-88.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4dc110fa90d5b0053a5c69cd5dfebcfb5901f0fd611fac1e8c51df15b6a8b70c/3-NWK25_-96.jpg" data-mid="229603774" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4dc110fa90d5b0053a5c69cd5dfebcfb5901f0fd611fac1e8c51df15b6a8b70c/3-NWK25_-96.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b67775a97a7c98c88ca532447c2be11a866ce2356dfae6e388da662771bdce5/3-NWK25_-85.jpg" data-mid="229603787" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b67775a97a7c98c88ca532447c2be11a866ce2356dfae6e388da662771bdce5/3-NWK25_-85.jpg" /> photographs: Jenny Rosentreter Intervention &amp; City Walk&nbsp; Wilhelmshaven city centre, March 2025 The intervention began at the Otto von Bismarck Memorial, reference point (A1), which was inaugurated in 2015 and represents a gesture of colonial nostalgia. At the site, Kervin Saint Pere covered the memorial plaque with a text printed on tissue paper that questions the official historiography of Bismarck, particularly with regard to the colonial era. From there, the tour guided visitors to monuments that represent a colonial and nostalgic narrative of the past. The last point of reference or coordination was the Christ Church and Garrison Church, where two of the artist‘s ‘Denkwege Zeichnungen’ hang above marble plaques commemorating the ‘heroic death’ of German colonialism. Another seven marble slabs were also covered with black felt. By covering and revealing this virtual space, the artist opens up a space for reflection that invites the viewers to critically question how discourses and images of violence are normalised in public space. <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/834bc56c17398bb2aa946490c7e5d8039889ccd37ff56a9f1ce96a5dcdffea68/1-NWK25_003.jpg" data-mid="229603874" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/834bc56c17398bb2aa946490c7e5d8039889ccd37ff56a9f1ce96a5dcdffea68/1-NWK25_003.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/766e3defe22f30d2d77a35ff06cdb334bd8473da3fa775c1f60b8738189f1123/1-NWK25_018.jpg" data-mid="229603876" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/766e3defe22f30d2d77a35ff06cdb334bd8473da3fa775c1f60b8738189f1123/1-NWK25_018.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9b2f741a7ff2a27fcf546f3fa8deded0faa6baffd4567a39fa00853e13e2ff1/1-NWK25_038.jpg" data-mid="229603877" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9b2f741a7ff2a27fcf546f3fa8deded0faa6baffd4567a39fa00853e13e2ff1/1-NWK25_038.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9af3860b8eb79c0fb58b9baac49ddd5a8a0f38f6cf8a2f6ddbe40421185338dc/1-NWK25_049.jpg" data-mid="229603878" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9af3860b8eb79c0fb58b9baac49ddd5a8a0f38f6cf8a2f6ddbe40421185338dc/1-NWK25_049.jpg" /> <img width="3333" height="5000" width_o="3333" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55f2a136e6dc5baedd09107e24ceee3214762570de8689891f87e27ae7730e92/1-NWK25_056.jpg" data-mid="229603879" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55f2a136e6dc5baedd09107e24ceee3214762570de8689891f87e27ae7730e92/1-NWK25_056.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f8254f3fab28971b23ac8e55f559467edf00c618cfcbf91a525b62ed4f839631/1-NWK25_069.jpg" data-mid="229603881" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f8254f3fab28971b23ac8e55f559467edf00c618cfcbf91a525b62ed4f839631/1-NWK25_069.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e05ba9622c3e648b2977fd32bd9dcd7f6c737d57fca177ea13ed2285a8aef3e0/1-NWK25_082.jpg" data-mid="229603882" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e05ba9622c3e648b2977fd32bd9dcd7f6c737d57fca177ea13ed2285a8aef3e0/1-NWK25_082.jpg" /> photographs: Jenny Rosentreter https://kervin-saintpere.com/Emil-Nolde-and-the-Afterlife-of-Colonialism-copy Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:46:44 +0000 Kervin Saint Pere Huarcaya https://kervin-saintpere.com/Emil-Nolde-and-the-Afterlife-of-Colonialism-copy Emil Nolde and the afterlife of colonialismInstallation in the ‘Zwischenraum’ of the MARKK Museum, 2023 In 2019, a box from the colonial ‘Medical-Demographic German New Guinea Expedition’ , in which Emil Nolde took part, was found in the MARKK archive. In these newly discovered, not yet archived pictures, Emil Nolde can be seen wearing a colonial helmet, as the colonial officials did. From my point of view, he thus casts light and shadows of the past into our time. But have we ever asked ourselves what it meant to wear a colonial helmet back then? Nolde, after all, lived at a time when racial theories formed a legal and intellectual basis for the problems and institutional violence in which many migrants lived. Nolde is depicted in the photograph wearing a colonial helmet, a characteristic element of the colonial masters in the former colonies, a symbol of power, a symbol of racial difference and ethnic superiority. This observation is not new, as a contemporary of Nolde, a Nigerian artist named Thomas Ona Odulate, who lived in Nigeria and also experienced the British occupation, used the sculpting techniques of the region to portray Europeans in wooden sculptures as well as their clothing and accessories.This observation is not new, as a contemporary of Nolde, a Nigerian artist named Thomas Ona Odulate, who lived in Nigeria and also experienced the British occupation, used the sculpting techniques of the region to portray Europeans in wooden sculptures as well as their clothing and accessories. The Installation was part of the Fluctoplasma Festival in the ‘Zwischenraum’ of the MARKK Museum. <img width="1920" height="1282" width_o="1920" height_o="1282" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cff3eb7a63343f08df2e9fd33274472fcb2e5e3e5b3d72c75dc5fe2b968e8b67/DSC_7581.jpg" data-mid="241229904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cff3eb7a63343f08df2e9fd33274472fcb2e5e3e5b3d72c75dc5fe2b968e8b67/DSC_7581.jpg" /> <img width="6634" height="4427" width_o="6634" height_o="4427" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1931c30e7e584571e692f3ba1a23160440ad1b63383fcdeacb42739449dcb7b7/DSC_9980.jpg" data-mid="241229909" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1931c30e7e584571e692f3ba1a23160440ad1b63383fcdeacb42739449dcb7b7/DSC_9980.jpg" /> <img width="6871" height="4586" width_o="6871" height_o="4586" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f35fda0466401699696d9d712c619a9ffd3dc8a5d5e03746a718f5a8e29a43f/DSC_9970.jpg" data-mid="241229910" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f35fda0466401699696d9d712c619a9ffd3dc8a5d5e03746a718f5a8e29a43f/DSC_9970.jpg" /> <img width="7130" height="4759" width_o="7130" height_o="4759" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5915659469ff0b9e407ecaba76b48782f3bd966439543afb6591a70e3a76f6fc/DSC_9920.jpg" data-mid="241229907" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5915659469ff0b9e407ecaba76b48782f3bd966439543afb6591a70e3a76f6fc/DSC_9920.jpg" /> <img width="7360" height="4912" width_o="7360" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/246f9dbc4c8175ffd362004b2ad2722682240bb25adfc1a94f0960a67128d95f/DSC_0009.jpg" data-mid="241229906" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/246f9dbc4c8175ffd362004b2ad2722682240bb25adfc1a94f0960a67128d95f/DSC_0009.jpg" /> <img width="5459" height="3643" width_o="5459" height_o="3643" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e4806efff0ba9b05f96b9e13b3a13180bf470775048a5d9e48c27770e11c817/DSC_0014-2.jpg" data-mid="241229905" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e4806efff0ba9b05f96b9e13b3a13180bf470775048a5d9e48c27770e11c817/DSC_0014-2.jpg" /> https://kervin-saintpere.com/The-white-background Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:31:16 +0000 Kervin Saint Pere Huarcaya https://kervin-saintpere.com/The-white-background The White BackgroundLecture PerformanceAIL, Kassenhalle Postsparkasse, 2023 Under the inventory number: 2260 and the storage location: K5570, they are registered as: ‘OBJECT’, in the collection group: ‘Natural materials‘ under the so-called title: ‘1 pair of raw rubber shoes’. This type of archiving in the Technisches Museum Wien is the surviving testimony to colonialism and the various faces of extractivism. One of these faces is the rubber known at the time as ‘white gold’, the extraction of which is responsible for genocide and yet represents only part of the colonial and post-colonial violence perpetrated in the Amazon region. In addition to physical violence and its culmination in genocide, other violent strategies were also carried out, representing epistemic extractivism and epistemicide. The lecture performance establishes a dialogue between selected images, their archives and their afterlife as well as their extractivist mechanisms. It explores the question of which types of representations historically served the exploitation of the Other and were used for the extractivism ofrubber. The lecture performance was shown forthe first time in the public programme of Angewandte Festival, exhibition: ‘stretching across time and space- On the coloniality of objects and projects‘. <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4536c286156dde5d909aeefb15c0ee1d28d6d3c0cae522e6720a5b01ed23cee/9X6A9059_1.jpg" data-mid="205030898" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4536c286156dde5d909aeefb15c0ee1d28d6d3c0cae522e6720a5b01ed23cee/9X6A9059_1.jpg" /> <img width="667" height="1000" width_o="667" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b029a9b6055698515ac5d24a7b75fd093866160843d8bebe42e408c64972b38/9X6A9060_1.jpg" data-mid="205030899" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/667/i/2b029a9b6055698515ac5d24a7b75fd093866160843d8bebe42e408c64972b38/9X6A9060_1.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa4d7e903e9e1056a91a18beabbd9362c6375126c3c4698ee3a5eea4e61aca4e/9X6A9048_1.jpg" data-mid="205030895" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa4d7e903e9e1056a91a18beabbd9362c6375126c3c4698ee3a5eea4e61aca4e/9X6A9048_1.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89c88fa10756679faf5f6405097302da9a45d4259d6772b412d624f13ae170c2/9X6A9049_1.jpg" data-mid="205030896" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89c88fa10756679faf5f6405097302da9a45d4259d6772b412d624f13ae170c2/9X6A9049_1.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/843b6301de0473e1a14705aa063be51b292a9bef90d48372829b8e8d554943f2/9X6A9056_1.jpg" data-mid="205030897" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/843b6301de0473e1a14705aa063be51b292a9bef90d48372829b8e8d554943f2/9X6A9056_1.jpg" /> Fotografien: Laura Ettel https://kervin-saintpere.com/The-Afterlife-of-Colonialism Tue, 11 Oct 2022 20:47:37 +0000 Kervin Saint Pere Huarcaya https://kervin-saintpere.com/The-Afterlife-of-Colonialism The City of Hamburg and the Afterlife of ColonialismInstallation Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, 2022 In the city of Hamburg, one can discover not only traces of the former colonial metropolis, but also traces of thought patterns that still exist, which have survived and have not ceased to exist - the «coloniality of power» (Aníbal Quijano). Part of these structures can be found - along with the representations of the last century, which are now part of the cultural heritage - in the forms of selective remembrance and conscious forgetting of history, which the city’s plaques of the cultural monuments (Kulturdenkmaltafel) recount. The «blue plaques» initially try to give a first historical impression of the architecture of Hamburg’s cultural monuments. However, these plaques decide, depending on the building, what kind of memory may be illustrated. To give an example, in the case of buildings with a complicated colonial past, such as the Chile, Africa and Asia House, the colonial part of the past is not mentioned at all. Instead, a memory without memory is created out of the diplomatic formality of selective remembering. The installation «The City of Hamburg and its Afterlife of Colonialism» rewrites this forgotten memory by appropriating the institutional formality. It makes the forgotten both present and visible by showing the colonial traces in the context of other images and reflecting the constructed representations, as a visual form of «acting» (Aby Warburg). The installation consists of two constructions of site fences that function as two interconnected plaques, forming a visual constellation based on the narratives of representation from institutions (left side) and private spaces (right side) that can bedescribed as «the afterlife of colonialism». <img width="7223" height="4821" width_o="7223" height_o="4821" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b95c33ec728c9b7b2bb73dce052dffa92d7129d090e824c2b907525fc485fa3b/B.jpg" data-mid="155533494" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b95c33ec728c9b7b2bb73dce052dffa92d7129d090e824c2b907525fc485fa3b/B.jpg" /> <img width="6913" height="4614" width_o="6913" height_o="4614" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/825be60b059c16b6a5e827dac0f9bdf31d8f548b167d1d9d1df0b8be4a7556dd/A.jpg" data-mid="155533497" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/825be60b059c16b6a5e827dac0f9bdf31d8f548b167d1d9d1df0b8be4a7556dd/A.jpg" /> <img width="7360" height="4912" width_o="7360" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c834fc5a18e0be421c29a98160bc9ff2f70589faf11e5d9657660c10f27ead18/D.jpg" data-mid="155533495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c834fc5a18e0be421c29a98160bc9ff2f70589faf11e5d9657660c10f27ead18/D.jpg" /> <img width="7044" height="4701" width_o="7044" height_o="4701" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a62bb67099482955442713a2df22a33450e12cd73cac20557868022e409f543a/E.jpg" data-mid="155533493" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a62bb67099482955442713a2df22a33450e12cd73cac20557868022e409f543a/E.jpg" /> <img width="8368" height="5584" width_o="8368" height_o="5584" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3ef3f4c91e62bf33046aff2c113dbefe8231f49fdf18088dd1c2513d447ffd2/F.jpg" data-mid="155533492" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b3ef3f4c91e62bf33046aff2c113dbefe8231f49fdf18088dd1c2513d447ffd2/F.jpg" /> <img width="6383" height="4259" width_o="6383" height_o="4259" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2e4fc06fce0945e7aac962a763bce0d2aaa590cccecbf4eb0608372a9e3de40/G.jpg" data-mid="155533491" border="0" alt="Absolvent*innenausstellung der HFBK, Hamburg 2022" data-caption="Absolvent*innenausstellung der HFBK, Hamburg 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2e4fc06fce0945e7aac962a763bce0d2aaa590cccecbf4eb0608372a9e3de40/G.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1281" width_o="1920" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dca95fd67323ee875df13c10229aa9b407218b72c1098355839feaf85ea7ab88/erste-5.jpg" data-mid="205343805" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dca95fd67323ee875df13c10229aa9b407218b72c1098355839feaf85ea7ab88/erste-5.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1281" width_o="1920" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0db8091bd70e9500c26f614797239bb2ca9fbb70d92c7c0030afa51a948e773/erste-7.jpg" data-mid="205343798" border="0" alt="Hamburger Bahnhof &ndash; Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin 2023" data-caption="Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin 2023" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0db8091bd70e9500c26f614797239bb2ca9fbb70d92c7c0030afa51a948e773/erste-7.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="854" width_o="1280" height_o="854" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4af1991d0ffdc179a1489edc85d423a101aba51067e923a9013019f57dff6a35/erste-6.jpg" data-mid="205343797" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4af1991d0ffdc179a1489edc85d423a101aba51067e923a9013019f57dff6a35/erste-6.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1281" width_o="1920" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d071415943db8d8523f01c6295c5617740eb87733fadc30098b01d9caa70045/erste-4.jpg" data-mid="205343804" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d071415943db8d8523f01c6295c5617740eb87733fadc30098b01d9caa70045/erste-4.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1281" width_o="1920" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd4a15abbad3e6f80589b4c180225239dbd02a8b6691a6b97a6fb06e7e7c6171/erste-3.jpg" data-mid="205343803" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd4a15abbad3e6f80589b4c180225239dbd02a8b6691a6b97a6fb06e7e7c6171/erste-3.jpg" /> Intervention &amp; City Walk&nbsp; 2021 - Today In the intervention, the plaques of the cultural monuments (Kulturdenkmaltafeln) are overlaid with silk-screen printed tissue paper. The formulated historical counter-narrative on the tissue paper illuminates the colonial past of the institutions, which are not to be found on the official cultural monument plaques because, due to the diplomatic formality of selective remembering, only certain memories find a place in the public space, while other memories are left out and suppressed because they are not supposed to be present as memories in public consciousness. By superimposing the narratives on the «blue plaques» through the semi-transparent tissue paper, both narratives become visible and the conflict between the two disparate narratives is made evident. In this way, both exist in the same space despite their disparity. <img width="1920" height="1281" width_o="1920" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47ee8431d6cc76690115cd1e790b86d35d0a075ee4f093094c0676f529f7f988/DSC_8318.jpg" data-mid="205346018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47ee8431d6cc76690115cd1e790b86d35d0a075ee4f093094c0676f529f7f988/DSC_8318.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1638" width_o="2048" height_o="1638" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4401cb5c4d0980137e0619d9e03b24e9e19ffcbe7f5d0fa3e60d6e3c38a9c8fd/fluctoplasma23_spaziergang_JonasAlbrecht-40.jpg" data-mid="205346052" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4401cb5c4d0980137e0619d9e03b24e9e19ffcbe7f5d0fa3e60d6e3c38a9c8fd/fluctoplasma23_spaziergang_JonasAlbrecht-40.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1638" width_o="2048" height_o="1638" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41beef7358df06a319364de83a579cff0a0eadfa7f229305a8ee27dd59ad6d03/fluctoplasma23_spaziergang_JonasAlbrecht-21_1.jpg" data-mid="205346044" border="0" alt="Fotograf: Jonas Albrecht (@zwischensequenzen) im Rahmen des Fluctoplasma Festivals" data-caption="Fotograf: Jonas Albrecht (@zwischensequenzen) im Rahmen des Fluctoplasma Festivals" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41beef7358df06a319364de83a579cff0a0eadfa7f229305a8ee27dd59ad6d03/fluctoplasma23_spaziergang_JonasAlbrecht-21_1.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1638" width_o="2048" height_o="1638" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7b01e526317de5f8e8615fc5bede3043663beb95961579bb793db53fdc739ae/fluctoplasma23_spaziergang_JonasAlbrecht-24_1.jpg" data-mid="205346047" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7b01e526317de5f8e8615fc5bede3043663beb95961579bb793db53fdc739ae/fluctoplasma23_spaziergang_JonasAlbrecht-24_1.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1638" width_o="2048" height_o="1638" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a75f812b3621cfcb23b9151d0b3600605498f6198801a371fa77d62c8e8c761/fluctoplasma23_spaziergang_JonasAlbrecht-28.jpg" data-mid="205346054" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a75f812b3621cfcb23b9151d0b3600605498f6198801a371fa77d62c8e8c761/fluctoplasma23_spaziergang_JonasAlbrecht-28.jpg" /> <img width="7015" height="9933" width_o="7015" height_o="9933" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/168fa369af446db8a6e7265c143cd348428f9f9955792d1c6cefde62630b7637/Plakat---Das-Nachleben-des-Kolonialismus_1.jpg" data-mid="205345447" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/168fa369af446db8a6e7265c143cd348428f9f9955792d1c6cefde62630b7637/Plakat---Das-Nachleben-des-Kolonialismus_1.jpg" /> https://kervin-saintpere.com/We-are-all-Kanaken Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:05:29 +0000 Kervin Saint Pere Huarcaya https://kervin-saintpere.com/We-are-all-Kanaken We are all KanakenExperimental Documentary 20:20 Min. 2021 In his essay film, «Wir sind alle Kanaken», Kervin Saint Pere demonstrates the complex layers of meaning associated with the term «Kanake» which have been violently imposed through European colonialism. The usage of the term is closely tied to racist practices of European colonization in the Global South and continues to be used to legitimize violence today. Saint Pere tackles these colonial practices, for it is through images, non-scientific myths and «theories» that the person designated as Kanake is dehumanized, degraded and marked as the Other and the Stranger. From the historical postcards and photographs of the colonies that appear in the film, the very people who are being objectified are cut out and ghostly superimposed on filmic archival footage of European expeditions. The created stencils condense the cinematic gaze, magnifying, like a second camera eye on the colonial own gaze. What viewers no longer see in the film are images of people reduced to «scenes of violence», but those who have made these categorizations and devaluations, namely: the Europeans. Saint Pere creates a reversal through this emphasis; the Europeans, who appear as observers in heroic-looking poses, become the critically scrutinized object. The repetition of the sentence «As in the thought patterns of the European colonies» in the voice-over precisely illustrates that the current meanings of the term «Kanake» as guest workers, refugees and so-called non-integrated people are still linked to colonial and racist images. In the past and present, the word serves to legitimize violence through categorizations, to ensure unjust order, and to maintain structures of domination and discrimination.(Cana Bilir-Meier) <img width="3504" height="4954" width_o="3504" height_o="4954" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9f1fbf27bc704343a534f85b1c86eb67d5615f2ff2d1aff16a52c48ca1a3e00/Wir-sind-alle-kanaken---poster.jpg" data-mid="175463279" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9f1fbf27bc704343a534f85b1c86eb67d5615f2ff2d1aff16a52c48ca1a3e00/Wir-sind-alle-kanaken---poster.jpg" /> https://kervin-saintpere.com/Among-Savages Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:05:29 +0000 Kervin Saint Pere Huarcaya https://kervin-saintpere.com/Among-Savages Among Savages Experimental Documentary 14:40 min. 2021&nbsp; Among Savages attempts to deconstruct the Western gaze on «the savage» and its consequences. Alternating, overlapping archival footage and self-produced imagery filmed in the slide archive of the University of Hamburg‘s Department of Art History, as well as postcards from the period, are accompanied by a narrative about an American named Carlos Poppe who produced shrunken heads for profit. The appropriation and commercialisation of the ritual practice to the point of deliberate killing, the literal hunting of heads to satisfy the increased economic demand for heads by tourists and collectors, raises the question of who is actually the savage. At the same time, the viewer is cynically confronted with documentary and written narratives from the 1940s that present and emphasise the superiority of the work of white male ethnographers. The work opens up a space for complex contexts and connections between narratives of the Other and the categorisation of the Other as savage, uncivilised or exotic, the latter of which remains a popular category in institutional and museum archives to this day.&nbsp; <img width="5400" height="7200" width_o="5400" height_o="7200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f38b8abbf3ad52d7888473da7094ab0ed47024f5591c6f0cc2de2652e66b075f/Poster-AmongSavages.jpg" data-mid="153619566" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f38b8abbf3ad52d7888473da7094ab0ed47024f5591c6f0cc2de2652e66b075f/Poster-AmongSavages.jpg" /> https://kervin-saintpere.com/Home-Museum Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:05:31 +0000 Kervin Saint Pere Huarcaya https://kervin-saintpere.com/Home-Museum Home MuseumLagos Photo Festival - Nigeria 2020 https://www.homemuseum.net Participation in the exhibition Home Museum, Lagos Photo Festival: «Rapid Response Restitution» tells a decolonial «citizens' story» and raises the question of restitution. Concept developed by Azu Nwagbogu and Dr Clémentine Deliss. The Home Museum is a model for a new kind of civic institution where every member of society can contribute to the collective perception of cultural values and address issues of restitution directly and without delay. This is achieved through the democratic medium of photography. The Home Museum is a digital platform where visitors are invited to enter a new infrastructure designed by the artists' and researchers' cooperative. Navigation is left to chance; visitors can wander through the visuals, sense the photographs and discover the poetics of the individuals' texts. Alternatively, friends and the artists' contacts can be found there by users combining different entries into a personal assemblage. The texts written by each artist for the Home Museum are personal, often thoughtfully worded testimonies that transcend any museum label or photo caption. Together, texts and images reveal the memories and realities of domestic life as a melting pot that crosses all categories and ages. <img width="2000" height="2997" width_o="2000" height_o="2997" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42680748fdc0db0a8eb002669d4f6464f283386a875534e7a8f5e7374baffde1/Home_Museum-SaintPere_Kervin-9.JPG" data-mid="153622775" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42680748fdc0db0a8eb002669d4f6464f283386a875534e7a8f5e7374baffde1/Home_Museum-SaintPere_Kervin-9.JPG" /> https://kervin-saintpere.com/Reversal Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:05:31 +0000 Kervin Saint Pere Huarcaya https://kervin-saintpere.com/Reversal Reversal VideoInstallation - July 2018 &nbsp; Reversal is a video installation that highlights changes and cycles in the hierarchies of nature. At the same time, it refers to the forest fires in the Amazon and life after the fire, as well as the hope of a possible renaturation of the Amazon. Death is reflected in the video as a source of nourishment, the narrative elements increasingly intermingling and encircling an aesthetic of transience and unsettling silence. The installation consists of materials from a fire-ravaged hectare of rainforest and images of the Latin American Amazon. The spiralling burnt branch, which seems to emerge from the ground, opens and is simultaneously released through its coils resembling a living element after death. Like the video, it hints at the hope of a renaturation of the Amazon after the fire, the hope of reforestation and the power of the Amazon to recover after destruction through nature's own regenerative processes. The installation contains materials and recordings from the Latin American Amazon (wood and ash). The video installation was exhibited as part of the 2018 graduate exhibition at the HFBK and as part of the Vienna Biennale for Change 2021 at the SMOLKA Gallery. <img width="3360" height="1884" width_o="3360" height_o="1884" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f450f05e1e35a514d8999d7ab88210fa69f97fa18731d01fdecbe06b410406e/5-47-Kopie.png" data-mid="153623700" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f450f05e1e35a514d8999d7ab88210fa69f97fa18731d01fdecbe06b410406e/5-47-Kopie.png" /> &nbsp;