Into the deep Loving Darkness is patricia kaersenhout’s debut solo exhibition in Germany. For this exhibition I pulled at multiple threads through kaersenhout’s decades long artistic practice to create a total installation that mines the violences of the archive and redresses them through emotionally evocative and performative encounters with her audience.

Into the Deep Loving Darkness tends to our collective wounds in an expansive manner, moving from imbuing dignity in Our Light Will Outlast their Flags to hammering in on the investment in violence that is apparent in King Louis XIV of France’s 1685 Code Noir. Of Palimpsests & Erasure continues the care work of sounding out the silences of the archive, bringing the work of black women into frame through works such as The Return of the Hummingbird Women, Distant bodies, and Vrouwen van Vos. Into The Deep Loving Darkness takes seriously the question of revisiting the scenes of subjection without replicating the grammar of violence. Karsenhout, a celebrated artist, emerges as a critical nurse retroactively digging into history and offering up new un-disciplinary strategies to healing the past through re-enacting it in the present