Narratives of Resistance - Zephyr Raum für Fotografie, Mannheim

Narratives of Resistance at Zephyr Raum for für Fotografie in Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim is part of From Where I Stand, the exhibition program I curated for the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie and presents the following artists 👇

📷 1 overall view

📷 2,3 Silvy Crespo The Land of Elephants, 2019–ongoing 

📷 4,5 Nepal Picture Library The Skin of Chitwan, 2020 

📷 6,7,8 Poulomi Basu and C. J. Clarke Centralia: Ghost Dance, 2021 

Images 1,2,7,8 @lys_y_seng Images 3,4,5,6 @miriamstanke 

Narratives of Resistance focuses on marginalised conflicts between national governments and indigenous communities. Large-scale lithium mining infrastructure in northern Portugal, the protracted struggle for Adivasi territory in central India and the ecological challenges facing Nepal in the Chitwan region: these have all had a serious impact on the inhabitants and their lands. 

The artists have carefully documented these social and political uprisings against land grabbing, resource exploitation and the continued disregard for human rights. By using fictional storytelling strategies while adding historical documents and images of the people themselves, they have found innovative ways to tell these histories. 

The perspective of the accounts is of those who have been living through the events for a long time and feel the loss of a lasting relationship with their environment and its profound transformations. Could these narratives of resistance become living archives that can contribute to the recognition of, and justice for, these resistance movements? 

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