Karimah Ashadu, King of Boys (Abattoir of Makoko), 2015 (still). HD digital film, colour with stereo sound duration: 5 mins. Credit: © Karimah Ashadu. Courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London.
Karimah Ashadu, King of Boys (Abattoir of Makoko), 2015 (still). HD digital film, colour with stereo sound duration: 5 mins. Credit: © Karimah Ashadu. Courtesy the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London.
GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER
164 N STATE ST
Presented at the Siskel Film Center in collaboration with SAIC’s Conversations at the Edge series, this screening brings together three other films by Karimah Ashadu—Plateau, Brown Goods, and King of Boys—and will be followed by a conversation between the artist and Giampaolo Bianconi, Dittmer Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Over the past fifteen years, Ashadu has forged a bold, formally inventive cinema that plunges viewers into the tactile realities of labor. Shooting on location in Lagos, Hamburg, and Nigeria’s Jos Plateau, Ashadu maps informal economies shaped by migration, global commerce, and colonial extraction.
