Kameelah Janan Rasheed is the 2022 recipient of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research, which is jointly awarded with the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Community.
Rasheed focuses her work on the materiality and legibility of text, writing, and language, as well as the potential of intermedial translation. Her practice is informed by a multitude of ideas and theories from science, literature, philosophy, religion, and critical theory, between which no epistemological hierarchies exist. The questioning of these and her own embodied knowledge becomes the force that drives Rasheed and her work. It also makes her stumble and pause as well as rethink and reconsider the ontology of the studied subject matter and the pursuit of continuous enquiry. She interweaves certainty with uncertainty and breathes the space in-between, following the oblique path of a learner. In her practice, the Brooklyn-based artist collects references and maps them out like in the layout of a book. She regards letters as characters with histories, desires, and interiority, and integrates these into her writings, annotates them, montages them, and attaches them to walls. By doing so, Rasheed bridges the gap between politics and poetry, trying to find connections and points of disintegration.
in the coherence, we weep is about the critical potential of incoherencies. It is an attempt to map methodology across media, while welcoming glitches that allow for moments of critical self-reflection and knowledge production.
Curator: Sofie Krogh Christensen
Assistant Curator: Linda Franken
