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CRISTINA DE MIDDEL @ Dillon Gallery

October 14th, 2015 by fstop

CRISTINA DE MIDDEL: THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID
October 7 – November 17, 2015

In the sixties, a 5 year old Nigerian child’s village was attacked by soldiers. His mother had left him at home alone, so he ran away to escape bombing and fire. He saved his life by entering the Bush, a magical territory where no humans are allowed and where all the Yoruba spirits live and fight. Our kid spent 30 years lost in the Bush trying to find his way back home amongst the spirits and the dead. He was married twice, became a king, god, slave, cow, jar, horse, and a goat; ate gold, silver, bronze, snakes, and snails; fought 2 wars and was sentenced to death half a dozen times… all that in just 100 pages. Amos Tutuola wrote “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” in 1964 and had to flee the country to escape violent reactions to a book that would open, during his exile, a new path for contemporary African narrative.

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