{"product_id":"wuh-ey-african-fusion-9","title":"Wuh.ey - “Kiti cha Kati”","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the series:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAfrican Fusion\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePaper:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan\u003eHahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheet size:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e60 × 60 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eYear:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan\u003eEdition of 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan\u003e3 + 1 AP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWuh.ey – “Kiti cha Kati”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e An elderly man sits at a bus stop. Behind him: a monumental poster with two faces, adorned with beads, masks, and colors—symbols of another world. In front of him, a rooster pecks at the asphalt. \u003cem\u003e\"Kiti cha Kati\"\u003c\/em\u003e —the space in between—is a meditation on time, identity, and the power of images in urban space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Wuh.ey captures a moment in which history observes itself. The old man, in a light suit and hat, embodies modern Europe: rational, detached, controlled. Behind him, however, two faces shine brightly, disrupting this order—colorful, rhythmic, full of presence. There's no contradiction between the two worlds, but rather an invitation to dialogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe work plays with hierarchies. What was once framed as \"exotic\" in an ethnological museum now appears on a billboard in the middle of the city—larger, stronger, more confident. The roles have reversed: the European gaze no longer rests on the African object; it is viewed, penetrated, and reflected by it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The rooster in the foreground is no coincidence. In many African cosmologies, it is considered a messenger between day and night, between life and the ancestral world. Here, it becomes a silent commentator: it guards the transition between the old order and the new perception.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"Kiti cha Kati\"\u003c\/em\u003e is Wuh.ey's reflection on visibility—on the return of the repressed into the visual world of the present. The street becomes a museum, the poster a devotional plaque, the person waiting a witness to a global memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThis work doesn't ask who owns the future, but rather who is allowed to tell it. Between poster and passerby, tradition and modernity, human and symbol, a new equilibrium emerges: the silent awakening of the Other—in the heart of the city.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AI - EDITION BERLIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54352614031695,"sku":null,"price":900.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2826\/3759\/files\/wuh9.jpg?v=1738446581","url":"https:\/\/ai-edition-berlin.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/wuh-ey-african-fusion-9","provider":"AI - EDITION BERLIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}