Contact Zones NRB is a book series by Goethe-Institut Kenya and its partner Native Intelligence that focuses on art and the humanities. Since 2011 we have published a vast number of books, with the newest volume focusing on Miriam Syowia Kyambi, a multi-media artist of Kenyan and German heritage, based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Kyambi has generated a substantial corpus of work that combines performance with sculpture, installation, paint, photography, and video. The book documents her works from 2007 to 2014, composed of solo, cooperative and curatorial works. Much of Kyambi's work dissects and brings to question notions of perception and memory. She examines how the contemporary human experience is influenced by constructed history, past and present violence, colonialism, family, and sexuality. By allowing performance and installation to become one entity, the result of her work is often an orchestration that engages the viewer in a dynamic process, in which Kyambi's own presence provides a critical dimension.
During the launch, some of her works will be exhibited and reviewed in a discussion with James Muriuki and Robby Bresson.
The book will be available at a special launch price of Ksh.500
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