Maaza Mengiste: Of Interest to the General Public Leuchtmittel and preservation

and preservation

Meena Kandasamy refuses to idealise or exoticise the carving

Daneben wurden im Humboldt Forum sieben Werke der Kunst am Bau realisiert

erzählen von der Vielfalt und Bedeutung der barocken Sandsteinfassaden

28 x 24 cm

Maaza Mengiste: Of Interest to the General Public Leuchtmittel and preservationObjects talk back About a Coronation Cloak from Ethiopia Inspired by the history of the 1868 Napier expedition and the burning of the palace fortress at Magdala, Of Interest to the General Public is a narration by the Ethiopian writer and photographer Maaza Mengiste. She combines photographs and text to re imagine the journey of the stunning and elaborately made royal cloak from Ethiopia out of battle, through fire, over mountains to cross the waters