Chapter Two: Panic - The Moment of Fear

May 12 – June 12, 2021

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Ange Kayifa

Trouble

2020
Video
2 min 58 sec
Courtesy of the artist

Trouble is the mental state I found myself in during the current coronavirus pandemic. Stranded in a country where I was cut off from all outside contact, I was quarantined in a local hotel. I was not allowed to leave my room; meals were left at our doorstep. Having already a history of depression, the condition in which I was lodged did not help my situation in any way. I was sinking into depression; I was in deep fear, discomfort, and I had the feeling of living in situations I had already seen, it was repetitive. I was also harassed by three men in quarantine in the same hotel . . . Late and repetitive calls on the landline phone to my room for inappropriate and insistent comments. Clumsiness and missteps accentuated the confusion in me. The fear and trauma woke me up in the middle of each night with a start. (Artist Statement)

  • Trouble, 2020, Video, 2 min 58 sec, courtesy of the artist. Angst, keine Angst, Installation view at Times Art Center, 2021. Foto: Jens Ziehe, Berlin.
A conversation between Ange Kayifa and Antje Majewski, 2021 © Times Art Center Berlin and the artists