Berlin | ArtRegion: Berlin, Mitte

Savvy Contemporary

Bili Bidjocka: ENIGMA#59: ROMAN

A RETROSPECTION

17. September – 31. Oktober 2021

Like the river in the rainy season, “flooding” its way through space in its process of remembering, Bili Bidjocka calls for a retrospection. Not a retrospective, but a possibility of revisiting his practice as an artist stretching over decades and geographies. The call, hardly ever fully articulated, is to look back, to remember, to unpack, to navigate those spaces in the rear-end of the subconscious, and if anything is found, to then re-member. The call is to go beyond the deliberations of the archive as something situated in the past, to cogitate and imagine the archive as the stone in the river that records every caress of the water that passes by, to consider the archive as the river that rises in an effort to remember where it used to be, claiming every centimetre of land on and through which it flowed once upon a time.

The call is to be. Being in absence and in presence. Being as archive itself.