Amapolas Al Viento. Another Way of Understanding Black Masculinity

Laurent Leger Adame, Nelson Sindze Wembe (RTG: Contradiction Studies)

10/16/2024 7:00 pm –8:30 pm

KLUB DIALOG Am Deich 86, Bremen

“Amapolas al viento” is a photographic project comprising 17 pieces that consciously explores the masculinity of Black men through its lens. It endeavours to capture the essence of individuals who, at first glance, are subject to prejudicial interpretations that categorise them from the subjectivity of a dehumanising or hypersexualized gaze. The metaphor that connects Laurent Leger Adame with the poppy flower and its symbolism refers to a flower known for its delicacy and ephemeral beauty as well as its vibrant red colour that stands out in fields and meadows. Despite its apparent fragility, poppy is a resilient flower that can flourish in adverse conditions and a variety of terrains, symbolising resilience and the capacity to thrive despite challenges.

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city

“The city is a laboratory not only of modernity, but also of contradiction.”

Julia Lossau
hierarchy of norms

“If social contradictions are reflected in law, law cannot form a hierarchy of norms free of contradictions.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
Afterlife of colonialism

“Contradiction comes in many different forms. None is so debilitating than when the coloniser transitions, textually not politically, to decoloniality without taking the responsibility for the afterlife of colonialism, which they continue to benefit from. Self-examination and self-interrogation of the relations of coloniality, a necessity, seem nearly impossible for the coloniser who continues to act as beneficiary, masked in the new-found language of White fragility, devoid of an ethical responsibility of the very system of White domination they claim to be against.” (Black Consciousness and the Politics of the Flesh)

Rozena Maart
l’illusion d’une unité

“Foucault speaks of contradiction as l’illusion d’une unité.”

Ingo H. Warnke
interstice

“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano