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Remembering Okwui Enwezor

October 23, 1963, Calabar, Nigeria – March 15, 2019, Munich, Germany

Ten Kilometers

Queridísimo Okwui,

What is memory? Why does one remember? How does one remember? Where do we keep hundreds, thousands of memories in our brain? When does memory become history?

It feels strange to write you a tribute. How does one honor

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