Hamishi Farah, Dog Heaven 2 — How Sweet the Wound of Jesus Tastes

Dog Heaven 2 : How Sweet the Wound of Jesus Tastes is Hamishi Farahʼs first institutional exhibition and a sequel to the artistʼs first solo show in Europe in 2015 in Brussels. The exhibition gathers newly commissioned paintings and other recent works.

Hamishi Farah is a self-taught artist whose work in conceptual and figurative painting plays inside the production of a politics and philosophy of representation, with a particular focus on the libidinal afterlife of coloniality and itʼs permeation through contemporary art.

While representational painting is shackled to narrative, representation itself flirts with an atemporal immanence upon arrival at a Blackness understood outwardly as a concept that negatively structures human capacity. The philosopher Fred Moten argues that the negative structuring of human capacity is not to invoke the inhuman but something closer to the ante- human, what necessarily came before, in perpetuity before, suggesting this world-shaping Blackness as another name for the force that is not endemic to, but currently occupied by the people who refer to ourselves as Black. To stretch an Afropessimist logic atemporally, you could assume Jesus Christ was Black because it was necessary for Christians to reenact his murder in perpetuity to feel human.

The exhibition is organized by Mohamed Almusibli, independent curator based in Geneva, Switzerland.