anaiis

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.

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