Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and No6ons of Diaspora brings together works by several contemporary artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and researchers. Combining new commissions with existing projects, the exhibition traces links between the Asian and African regions, manifesting overlays and diasporic transfers between two areas of increased global political, economic and cultural importance in the 21st century. The Indian Ocean emerges as a communal horizon that reveals shades of cultural, linguistic, political and historical passage from ancient times to the present. The exhibition takes us from ancient routes of transregional exploration, trade and seasonal migration up through contemporary afroasiac exchanges, from languages, sounds, waters, economies, philosophies and more.
Indigo Waves and Other Stories
Curated by Natasha Ginwala + Bonaventure Ndikung, Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2023