The exhibition UNACCEPTABLE combines various elements drawn from researched material and memory. The term is a label for that which is outside of the norms in society.

Drawing from a collection of various ‘love’ territories previously inhabited by the artist, a fragile and personal point of view emerges from a space that has previously been framed as ‘political’.

Because Love is Not Enough [Sound Installation, 2012] is a fictional piece set in Kenya in 1950, during the Mau-Mau war. It is a follow-up of Not Yet, and Nobody Knows Why Not [2008],  a performance piece that took place during a protest gathering of Mau-Mau war veterans against the current Kenyan leadership, where Kukama stood at the entrance of the venue where people gathered and, seductively as well as violently, applied red lipstick to her entire face.

The sound installation Because Love is not Enough narrows down to a single moment in the beginning of a fictitious love affair that is already on the verge of its end. Oblivious to its surrounding political realities, this single moment magnifies to a point reflecting that which is outside of itself.

At the opening of the exhibition there will be a performance rendition of the eleventh season of Little Britain, a popular TV comedy series.  In this season, the idea of love shifts between the "innocent" and the "vulgar", inserting at times the most unpredictable expressions of the term.

An accompanying video piece goes further to build unlikely relationships between throw-away ideas, unfinished thoughts or phrases, and borrowed terms to render them all as equally valuable elements within making a term as immaterial as "love" graspeable.

02 February - 25 February