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Her life journey brought her from Tanzania to Sweden, France, Belgium and the UK where she has been living for the past fifteen years. Nicodemus spent the 1990s and early 2000s living in Antwerp and Brussels, where her work on the postcolonial condition was very influential and significant in raising awareness about racism in Europe, as well as the need for research and writing on the history of Modern African Art. Throughout her career, Nicodemus nurtured a distinctive and polymorphous practice anchored in postcolonial theory, feminism and trauma studies.
This retrospective exhibition in WIELS delves into the breadth of a practice that always refused conformity and the “othering” frames of expectation shaped by the Western ethnographic gaze. Instead, Nicodemus approaches colour, texture and the form of the human body through a profound involvement with community organizing, communion and relationality.