Ixmucané Aguilar : Fraitaxtsēs sores tsîn ge ra≠gâ = Even Friday's sun sets - Aguilar, Ixmucané (Berlin : Archive Books, 2023)
In the artistic documentary Fraitaxtsēs sores tsîn ge ra≠gâ - Ondjembo yo Null Vier, Ixmucané Aguilar has worked in close collaboration with Nama and OvaHerero people who vividly evoke memories and rituals of mourning caused by human loss and land dispossession under Imperial Germany's violent occupation. From these personal encounters emerge portraits, visuals and narratives as documental fragments, consisting of living voices which insist on defending memory as an invocation to witness and never to remain passive in the face of social injustice. Rather than a linear collection of data referring to distant places and its distant past, this work engages with stories as chronicles calling to be recognised as pieces of humanity and time. Alongside Aguilar's portraits, this publication also contains contributions by human rights attorney Wolfgang Kaleck and the curator of the work Tristan Pranyko, along with poetry by Namibian artists Nesindano Namises, Fritz Isak Dirkse and Prince Kamaazegi, and narratives, testimonies, chants and mourning rituals shared by OvaHerero and Nama people in present-day Namiba.
Ixmucané Aguilar, Fraitaxtsēs sores tsîn ge ra≠gâ = Even Friday's sun sets, Ondjembo yo Null Vier = the gun of Null Vier, National Art Gallery of Namibia, 2022.
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Keywords: Aguilar, Ixmucané; Namibië