This bronze artwork consists of several organically shaped discs featuring growth rings. Each disc represents an individual and their story, standing for people who suffered under colonial structures and crimes:
Cula, Akafede Dalle, “Miranha” and “Juri”
On site you can scan the QR code with your smartphone to access a digital component of the artwork. There you can explore in-depth information about the individuals. With spoken-word pieces and augmented reality sculptures, the artist addresses a speculative future for the people involved.
The sculpture “Living Layers” was created as part of the “Sensing Sites” project, which emerged from a broad civil society initiative and is supported by a wide range of actors critical of colonialism who are working to address colonial crimes.
The project was realized with the support of Public History Munich and Public Art Munich at the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich.
Nando Nkrumah is a visual artist whose practice encompasses paintings, sculptures, and digital works that address the empowerment and liberation from post-colonial structures. By employing digital techniques such as augmented reality, he transforms public spaces and institutions to open up new areas and renegotiate power dynamics.
