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A Dense and Severe Berlin Biennale Wrestles with Destructive Legacies

he 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art takes a politically charged approach to assert its claim that art, through broadening our perspectives and inspiring empathy, is essential to the process of decolonising the present. Titled , the exhibition headed by French-Algerian artist Kader Attia is devoted to works that highlight histories and knowledges erased and overpowered by colonialism and its afterlives. “The seeds of fascism are there,” Attia said at the press conference. “They have never disappeared. They are in the blind spots of our perception

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