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A Ghost in the Machine
May 7th – June 1st, 2020
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“The Ghost in the Machine” introduces the work of three contemporary Kenyan artists who challenge the idea of hierarchy and instead imagine their work through the lens of “holonarchy”: whereby everything in the universe is simultaneously both a whole and a part. Every “holon” is torn between two impulses – to be an individual and to become part of something bigger and more communal. The show’s theme, inspired by Arthur Koestler’s 1967 novel The Ghost In the Machine and building on philosopher Gilbert Ryle’s genesis of the term, …