Iris Kensmil
Iris Kensmil explores the tradition of black emancipation. She underlines the fact that emancipation cannot exist without history; it relies on the power – and sometimes the burden – of previous generations. Many of her paintings are as layered as a palimpsest; slogans, cries for freedom and manifestos loom through the impasto paint.
For the Inertia show Kensmil presented the installation:
“And assorted men came to hear....”
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Texts from the period 1968 – 1971 by the Black Panthers and related organisations in the Netherlands are projected under portraits of arrested members of the movement.
6 x 244 x 244, ink, pastel on paper, dvd, beamer on turning mechanism.
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