anaiis + Tora-i

In a 1994 copy of Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations, famed educator, author, theorist and activist bell hooks wrote: “The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is – it’s to imagine what is possible. ” Her words speak to an innate sense of wonder, how truth is all too often stranger than fiction. 

While hook inks the meaning of art, French-Senegalese artist anaiis (whose name is in lowercase as tribute to hooks) translates that ethos into sound.

On her forthcoming album Devotion & The Black Divine, the songs swell with emotional clarity and a growing sense of homecoming. Not to a place, but to the self. anaiis seems to be in conversation with the reverence of nature, recognising our own divinity, and therefore our wholeness in both chaos and beauty.

Support: Tora-i

Friday, March 13
Kuppelhalle
Doors: 7 pm / Start: 8 pm
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