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Remnants
Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Don Cherry, Kudzanai Chiurai, Doug Crutchfield, Nina Cramer and Ellen Nyman, Wonga Mancoba
12 September – 14 December 2025
It is 1969. American jazz trumpeter Don Cherry meets South African bassist Johnny Dyani in Sweden. Two years later, Cherry, Dyani, and Okay Temiz take the stage in Paris for a live performance that results in the album Blue Lake. Charged with the spirit of improvisation, Blue Lake plays like a raw meditation—urgent, unfiltered, alive.
Years later, the Johnny Dyani Quartet records Song for Biko in Copenhagen. It is a rallying cry for Steve Biko, the South African activist who was assassinated by the apartheid government in 1977. Cherry’s trumpet threads through the piece, accompanying it with melodic, unbound emotional resonance.
In the wake of the 1960s Black Civil Rights movement, the wave of African independence, and the rise of Pan-African solidarity, Cherry and Dyani are intertwined through sound. Their collaboration is one of many meetings of Black life.
Remnants begins here. What lingers in the archive? What breaths of Black life persist in its folds? What are the aural, visual, and tactile traces that hold both beauty and tension? Remnants pulls together a poetic constellation of gestures by living and departed artists, where pasts and presents meet in chorus.
Curated by Tawanda Appiah.
The exhibition is supported by The Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansen’s Foundation, The Augustinus Foundation, The Beckett Foundation, The Knud Højgaard Foundation, The Obel Family Foundation and New Carlsberg Foundation
Image: Eagle-Eye and Don Cherry during SVT filming, Tågarp, 1971. © Estate of Moki Cherry / Cherry Archives.
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