Opening: "Breathing Room - How Are We Here and Elsewhere?"

Exhibition opening

About the project: The starting point for Breathing Room is a series of conversations about belonging and a sense of place held between Vanessa Amoah Opoku and people from various diasporas. Before and after these encounters, the artist scanned the participants using LiDAR, a surveying technique that emits infrared light and generates 3D point clouds of what it scans. For several minutes, she moved around her conversation partners. If they moved with her, they left blurs in the scan. The soft, fragmentary point clouds were then rendered in encaustic wax, allowing the portraits to be touched. Through this process, Amoah Opoku proposes a different logic for determining how racialised bodies are represented.