Rotimi Fani-Kayode | Trace - Formations of Likeness: Photography and Video from The Walther Collection | Haus der Kunst

Hales is excited to announce the inclusion of Rotimi Fani-Kayode in Trace - Formations of Likeness: Photography and Video from The Walther Collection at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, through 23 July 2023.
 
Trace - Formations of Likeness celebrates portrait photography — of people, objects, and places — and the tracing of societal transformation across geographic spaces and contrasting socio-political and cultural landscapes. The photographic portrait is deployed as a means to shape identity, to advocate for social change and as a subversive strategy for visibility, often through an intimate investigation of politics of memory, history, and embodiment. 
 
The major survey exhibition Trace - Formations of Likeness is in collaboration with The Walther Collection, a New York City/Neu-Ulm–based art foundation internationally recognised for their critical engagement with contemporary and historical photography. With over 1000 works on display by a diverse group of artists from different cultural backgrounds, as well as archival, documentary and vernacular photography, Trace - Formations of Likeness offers a global context to reflect on the divergent trajectories of photography today, showcasing the medium’s capacity as both an instrument for empowerment and formation of the self, as well as its complex uses as a tool for control and subjugation.
 
 
Rotimi Fani-Kayode 
Trace - Formations of Likeness: Photography and Video from The Walther Collection
Haus der Kunst
Prinzregentenstraße 1
80538
München
Germany 
 
14 April – 23 July 2023 
 
April 14, 2023