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Screenings

Tabita

Rezaire

Goodman Screenings is a monthly digital programme presenting a curated selection of artist films, documentaries, and multimedia works available to stream exclusively on our website for a limited time. Each screening engages with timely cultural moments and dialogues with the gallery’s exhibitions and wider programming. By offering access within defined viewing windows, Goodman Screenings preserves the immediacy of live experience while opening it to a global audience, bringing powerful moving-image works from the gallery and beyond to viewers everywhere.

This Month’s Feature: Tabita Rezaire, Mamelles Ancestrales (2019) and Sorry for Real (2015)

Tabita Rezaire
Mamelles Ancestrales, 2019

This screening of the single channel film included in the cinematic installation ‘Mamelles Ancestrales’ (2019). The installation unfolds at the centre of a replica stone circle and the core of a debate about the search for knowledge about these structures. Megaliths are ancient stone monuments, often in the form of a circle, and are found all over the world. The film asks questions about how these stones are viewed and understood locally. In some contexts they are seen as tombs, for others, portals to other dimensions, places of ritual or astronomical observation. Their stories highlight the difference between the modern world of measurement and prediction and that of mythology and ancient cosmology. But the images, animations and sounds used also demonstrate these different forms of knowledge.

A central thread in the film is an exploration of our relationship to death, our ancestors and the afterlife, whether through spirituality, archaeology or theology. The stones in the installation, therefore, are the starting point from which to question our relationship to the unknown and invisible realms.

Tabita Rezaire
Sorry for Real (2015)

‘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?

Tabita Rezaire
Farmers' Wisdom, 2023

In 2020, artist and spiritual seeker Tabita Rezaire became a farmer and started Amakaba—a centre for Amazonian wisdom in French Guiana. The installation ‘Farmers’ Wisdom’ explores how land, societies and people can heal from the legacies of colonialism. The artist draws from Afrodiasporic and Indigenous systems of knowledge and practices of care, growth and transformation. The installation includes an adobe which invites visitors to rest within the womb of the earth. The hut was built in collaboration with Natural Building Lab, part of Technische Universität Berlin’s Architecture Institute, and students of the university.

This screening showcases the 3 videos within the installation. In these videos Rezaire interviews farmers, seeking their guidance as she starts her own journey in agriculture. ‘Singing Bee Garden’ (2021) documents the relationship of mutual sustenance between beekeepers and their bees. Other videos include ‘Terre Rouge’ (2021) and ‘Jardin bois de rose’ (2021). These videos inquire how local, scientific and spiritual knowledge is handed down through generations.