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Steve C. E. Knoll

La Jungle En Moi, 2025, Installation, Begehbare Holzkonstruktion, Acryl-Öl-Gemisch mit traditionellem Gardenia-Pigment auf 5 Leinwänden (je 200 × 200 cm), 5 Holztafeln (je 200 × 200 cm) mit Tafellack und Kreide, Maniok, Obststiegen, Afrokamm, Afro-Schwamm, ca. 600 × 400–600 × 200 cm.

 source: Steve C. E. Knoll

La Jungle En Moi, 2025.

 source: Steve C. E. Knoll

La Jungle En Moi, 2025.

 source: Steve C. E. Knoll

La Jungle En Moi, 2025.

 source: Steve C. E. Knoll

My practice moves between painting, installation, and documentary condensation. Drawing on diasporic experience and a family history shaped by colonial entanglements, I examine how memory operates as a mode of thought shaping space. At its core lies the entanglement of personal history, collective image production, and processes of cultural attribution. Engaging with Western and African theoretical and visual traditions, I question linear historical narratives and dominant regimes of vision without illustrating them. I understand material as a carrier of sedimented experience — as an intersection between archive, projection, and present.