On one side, there’s the Sardinia made of heavenly beaches and luxury hotels, prey of holiday tourism. On the other, there is the most hidden one, which still bears the signs of the Cold War, with military bases scattered around and the architectural brutalism turned into abandoned industrial ruins. The double faced Sardinia is told in Something happened on the Way to Heaven at the MAN of Nuoro, the exhibition that marks the end of Kiluanji Kia Henda’s residence. A period in which the Angolan artist lived and crossed the island, comparing it with the current situation in the Mediterranean: theatre of migrations and social injustices in a paradoxical setting of natural beauty. In Henda’ installations and sculptures, this phenomenon is symbolized by flamingos and other zoomorphic species, free to fly above any national barrier.
Which Sardinia? Geographical and social paradoxes in Kiluanji Kia Henda’s artworks
Sardinia is seen from the Mediterranean perspective, an idyllic setting marked by human and social injustices.
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- Giulia Ronchi
- 06 February 2020
- Something Happened on the Way to Heaven
- Kiluanji Kia Henda
- Luigi Fassi
- Nuoro, Italy
- MAN Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, via Sebastiano Satta 27, Nuoro
- 31 January-1 March 2020
Bandeira.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Bullet Proof Glass - Mapa Mundi (Caprera Island), 2019 inkjet print on fine.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Migrants Who Don't Give A Fuck, 2019.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, The Geometric Ballad of Fear, 2019, inkjet print on matt paper, 100 x 120 cm.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Wall and Politics, 2006.
Ludic Island Map, inkjet print on matt paper, 150cmx145cm, 2019.
Mare Nostrum, inkjet print on matt paper, saline images 46cm x 70cm each.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, installation view.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, installation view.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, installation view.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, installation view.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, installation view.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, installation view.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, installation view.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, installation view.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, installation view.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, installation view.
Kiluanji Kia Henda, Something Happened on the Way to Heaven, installation view.