‘Sorry for Real’ is a virtual apology on behalf of the western world. Aiming to provide an apology for genocide, slavery, colonialism, segregation, apartheid, and the exploitation of black and indigenous bodies, and the current heritage of the colonial matrix of power that is capitalism, white supremacy, and hetero-patriarchy, this work questions the apology forgiveness narrative. What is the function of an apology? Who benefits from the apology? What power structures are hidden behind our apologetic age?

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Ifa-Organ associates Ifa; a binary divination system practiced principally in Nigeria, Benin, and their diasporas; and the barrel organ originating in eastern and central Europe. An Ifa priest in Benin performed a remote consultation at the artist’s request. The resulting divination produced a series of signs consisting of binary codes that were then transposed through perforations onto a card made for a barrel organ. When played, the card produces a repetitive music which broadcasts the oracle into public space. The perforated card is at once a sonic and visual object. When it is not played, the card is displayed in the exhibition space inviting the viewer to decipher the divination codes.