Michèle Magema

Cancelled! Due to personal reasons Michèle Magema had to cancel her shows in Hamburg.Michèle Magema follows the trail of Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh, the leader of the Dahomey Amazons, also known as the Mino. In the nineteenth century, the Mino were an organised army of women who defended the King of Dahomey (today’s Benin) against the French colonial powers. As she put together her research material, Magema traced a line from the melting mountains of Greenland to the sand dunes of the Sahel zone. Linking these extremes, she creates a space between desert and ice, past and present, utopia and reality, in which the idea of another form of community becomes possible.