Kendell Geers: Flesh Of The Spirit

The question of African art that runs through Geers’ curatorial work, particularly the one he conducted with Sindika Dokolo for the exhibition Incarnations (BOZAR, 2019), is redeployed here in his work as an artist. The plastic model is Afrocentric – it takes Africa as its center, but what matters is not to recompose the unity of an identity. It is a question of disturbing the game of continuities and affiliations, of remodeling families, of creating new links of kinship. Not to appropriate forms. But to summon the spirit of the forms, to manufacture figures resisting the possibility even to be fixed in a category, to be brought back to the univocity of a story. It is necessary to open another history of the art – the one where the works travel and are invited to cure us.