Gislind Nabakowski

Gislind Nabakowski contributed a text, The Other State in the Sense of Reinterpretation or ‘The River of Thought Takes the Form of Skin?” to the monograph Ingrid Mwangi | Your Own Soul, published by German art publisher Kehrer Verlag, in 2003. From the back cover: “Ingrid Mwangi is an artist of biracial heritage, whose videos, installations, performances and photoworks incessantly explore her blackness. Having spent the first fifteen years of her life in Kenya where she was born, she moved to Germany where she still lives and works.

Her dual belonging is not only a symbolic matter for her. It is physical. It runs through her veins and is inscribed in her body. That richness, derived from the concurrence of here and there, has generated in her a fragility of sorts, a prism through which she attempts to view herself and the world.” Simon Njami

Various stipends and prizes… as well as the participation in numerous group shows and solo exhibitions in Europe and America confirm Ingrid Mwangi’s artistic concepts and choice of explosive topics.”

The publication, with German and English text, is extensively illustrated with the artist’s work. Contents as follows:

Foreword / Bernd Schulz and Lisa Puyplat

Neger - Don’t Call Me / Coloured / Down by the River / To Be in the World / Your Own Soul / Wild at Heart / Static Drift | Selected Works and Texts by Ingrid Mwangi

Art is the Message / Horst Gerhard Haberi

Beyond Wounds and Scars. the Multiple Worlds of Ingrid Mwangi Jan Hoet and Ann Demeester

The Other State in the Sense of Reinterpretation or ‘The River of Thought Takes the Form of Skin?” / Gislind Nabakowski

Biography

Prizes / Stipends / Awards

List of Exhibitions

List of Illustrations

Authors

»  Ingrid Mwangi | Your Own Soul

Catalogue relating to an individual, 2003