Opening: "Sara Sallam – Care: Reconsidering Photography"

Exhibition opening

About the exhibition: Looking back, how are we to interrogate the violent practices of the colonial era today? How can wounds be made visible – in order to start the process of healing? In her first exhibition in Germany, the young Egyptian artist Sara Sallam – who lives in the Netherlands – addresses these questions in new works developed especially for the MK&G Hamburg, exploring the museum’s archaeological and photographic collection and its colonial legacy across three sections: “Bodies Protected”, “Statues Personified”, and “Extraction Revealed”.