"May Ayim.Dichterin. 1996" Akinbode Akinibiyi (2022)

Known to reflect an array of erased and subalternated narratives in his black and white photographs Akinbode Akinbiyi wanders, wonders and documents a loss as personal as it is collective in "May Ayim: Dichterin. 1996." Almost as if capturing silence, the Nigerian-British Berliner moves with lightness through a space as heavy as the funeral of a beloved, a friend, a writer that almost three decades later will have made history as big as the gap left behind by transcending. The exhibition presents a delicate collection carefully selected from Akinbiyi’s personal archival images of 1996, documenting and mourning - and celebrating the timelessness of May Ayim's work and its disclosure of undeniably uncomfortable truths.

- Anja Saleh about “May Ayim. Dichterin. 1996 - meandering wandering, amongst densely woven threads” by Akinbode Akinbiyi