Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is a Vienna based writer, artist, and researcher whose works manifest themselves through a variety of media.
2023 year exhibited in Biennial Find out more
Rooted in Black feminist theory, she has developed a research-based and process-oriented investigative practice that often deals with archives, specifically with the voids in public archives and collections, as well as the conditions of Black life in an ongoing past. Doing so, she interlaces varying spaces and temporalities, thereby resisting a clean-cut separation between the documentary and the fictional. Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński is represented by Gallery Wonnerth-Dejaco, Vienna.
Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński’s works have been shown internationally. Recent solo and group shows include: You are awaited but never as equals (2023), Seven Scenes (2022) Camera Austria Graz, If A Tree Falls In A Forest (2022) Les Recontres d’ Arles, KAS (2022) Centrale Fies, Solo Show (2021) Kunsthalle Wien.
Liverpool Biennial 2023
Respire (Liverpool) (2023)
Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski’s ‘Respire (Liverpool)’ (2023) references the precarity of Black breathing and proposes breath as a means of individual and collective liberation. Accompanied by ‘Keep On Keepin’ On (for Nile)’ (2023), a soundscape created in collaboration with sound-artist Bassano Bonelli Bassano, this video work is committed to giving space to Black breathing to expand and exist freely. Dedicating the exhibition space to this expansion, Kazeem-Kaminski’s presents a multimedia-based and hauntingly visceral experience in which the sound moves in waves from the individual to the communal and back again. By positioning breath as a somatic response to violence but also to pleasure and connection, the works investigate breath as a compass to guide along the precarious line between catastrophe and aliveness.
Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski’s ‘Respire (Liverpool)’ (2023) references the precarity of Black breathing and proposes breath as a means of individual and collective liberation. Accompanied by ‘Keep On Keepin’ On (for Nile)’ (2023), a soundscape created in collaboration with sound-artist Bassano Bonelli Bassano, this video work is committed to giving space to Black breathing to expand and exist freely. Dedicating the exhibition space to this expansion, Kazeem-Kaminski’s presents a multimedia-based and hauntingly visceral experience in which the sound moves in waves from the individual to the communal and back again. By positioning breath as a somatic response to violence but also to pleasure and connection, the works investigate breath as a compass to guide along the precarious line between catastrophe and aliveness. Filmed here in Liverpool with local participants, ‘Respire (Liverpool)’ explores the possibilities to breathe freely despite the burden of an ongoing past. Together, the performers share, hold and imagine breathing space for each other, themselves and others, blurring lines between past, present and future. Showing at FACT
Respire (Liverpool) (2023)
Showing at FACT
Tuesday to Sunday 11:00am-6:00pm
