Visual Collections Repository

A glimpse into Kapwani Kiwanga’s ‘Structural Adjustments’, an art book developed from two solo exhibitions titled ‘The sum and its parts’ and ‘A wall is just a wall’ back in 2017. “Kapwani Kiwaga produces works across installation, performance and video that connect her training in anthropology, comparative religion and documentary film with her interests in history, memory and mythology.”

Kiwanga’s work is now digitized and lives in the VCR database thanks to Joana Joachim’s work for Blackity (a curatorial exhibition which highlights the work of Black Canadian artists from Artexte’s collection, dating back to the 1970s until now).
Don’t know how to access our database? Come visit us at the VCR and we’ll show you!

Henni, Samia; Kiwanga, Kapwani; Köchling, Carolin; Michel, Bill; Umolu, Yesomi; Verna, Gaëtane. Structural Adjustments : Kapwani Kiwanga. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
P.6-7 12-13, 40-41, 48-53.

Join us at the VCR for a screening of Losing ground (1982) in celebration of Black History Month.

**Free event and seats are limited.**
**Please, find tickets in the bio**

Losing Ground is a semiautobiographica film written and directed by Kathleen Collins. It is one of the first feature-length drama directed by an African American woman.

Sara Rogers (Seret Scott), a black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand “ecstasy” just as her painter husband, Victor (Bill Gunn), sets off on a more earthy exploration of joy. Over the course of a summer idyll in upstate New York, the two each experience profound emotional and romantic awakenings.