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After Mario Pfeifer’s widely acclaimed video installation Again / Noch einmal (Xth Berlin Biennale, 2018), KOW presents his most recent project, which puts the focus on another scandalous instance of racism: the unexplained death of Oury Jalloh, a prime example of the problem of institutional racism in Germany and beyond.

The case has been all over the German media. Because the idea that Oury Jalloh set himself on fire sixteen years ago in a detention cell at the police headquarters in Dessau-Roßlau and died within minutes is not only believed by virtually no one—it has also been conclusively …