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In Westafrican Roadmovie the viewer is brought along on an adventure in the style of a GoPro-travel documentary. The condensed timeline eliminates the travel distance that exists between the locations visited. Different blocks are merged together; a backstreet in Accra leads to a shore in Sierra Leone, with a soundtrack of Swedish pop music – and behind every corner lies a makeshift gym, a slaughtered hen, or a tailor of fake Dior suits in Guinea-Conakry.
Ilja Karilampi (b. 1983, Gothenburg, Sweden, based in Berlin) is a visual artist who works primarily with video, but also incorporates sculpture, installation, and graphic design. His work is deeply autobiographical, drawing from his own background and interest in subcultures, often exploring the way music inspires aesthetic journeys.
Previous exhibitions & screenings at the Barbican, London; Statens Konstråd, Stockholm; hFACTOR, Lagos, Nigeria; Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn; KIASMA, Helsinki; MoMA PS1, New York, and KW, Berlin.
Agassi F Bangura
Born in 1982 in Bo Town, Sierra Leone. Currently resides in Frankfurt since 2005.
Throughout several films, shot while traveling the world, Agassi explores the on-camera presence and the performative idea about oneself. He often plays with the idea of shamanic masculinity in his performances and video works. The “African Fitness Gym”, a workout site built out of wood and concrete, exhibited at the Städelschule in 2010, is a critique of a modernist idea of progress, which he sees in consumption-oriented fitness studios. Together with Ilja Karilampi, he has been collaborating on a series of projects focusing on re-discovering geographic areas through research and film recordings, most recently for an upcoming movie in and around Uganda.
