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In the black intellectual tradition, the fundamental issue is not class or race, but contesting the Western symbolic order and the Christian vision of 'the human': a symbolic order in which black subjects are objectified, inferiorised and animalised, and thus expelled from the 鈥渉umanity鈥� that the Western bourgeois embodies. This is the starting point for A requiem for humanity, dehumanisations, power and black futurisms, an exhibition curated by Tania Adam, which approaches the scientific, cultural and religious production that led to the de-humanisation of 鈥渢he negro鈥� and the resulting violence on black people. It will also examine and deal with the utopias that allow us to imagine a future of emancipation. 

The exhibition is organised along these lines of reasoning. There is an initial section, entitled 鈥淒ehumanisation鈥�, with works by  Claudia Claremi, Frida Orupabo, Sybil Coovi Handemagnon, D. W. Griffith and Archivos Negros, which shows how this construct of the anti-black world leads to a timeless and incessant spiral of violence that persists in present-day societies. Part two 鈥� 鈥淩ehumanization鈥�, with pieces by the Kongo Astronauts, The Otholith Group, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra, Drexciya, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ishmael Reed,  Octavia E. Butler, Fred Moten, Sony Labuo Tansi, Kodwo Eshun, Louis Chude-Sokei, Amos Tutuola, Nihiloxica, Drecxiya and Lee 'Scratch' Perry鈥� proposes a utopian approach to reflecting and imagining a humanity that goes beyond the human, flirting with a mythology that breaks down the distinctions between the human, the alien and the machine. It is a form of Rehumanisation, of repairing and rehistoricising in order to take back the power of the narrative. We may also say it allows us to celebrate a Requiem for misrepresented humanity.