Endurance

Vernissage: Wednesday 1st September 2021, 18:00
Exhibition: Tuesday 31 August - Friday 17 September 2021, 08:00-20:00
Finissage and screening of "FREE MEN" followed by a talk with Kenneth Reams and Anne-Frédérique Widmann: Thursday 16 September 2021, 18:00

In collaboration with:

> Who Decides
> A-F. Widmann - www.freemen.ch
> The Tamari Foundation
> Windows on death Row
> Festival FIFDH
> Association Makaronic.ch and the yearly events Poésies en mouvement

This selection of visual art is evidence of one man’s will to survive in solitary confinement. The thirty works chosen for this exhibition, entitled ENDURANCE, come from the large reservoir of art produced during the later years of the three decades that Kenneth Reams has been on death in the United States. The artwork reflects and explores his creative mind, interests, incarceration, dreams, and determination to overcome the hardships of having spent most of his life in solitary confinement on death row.

Kenneth Reams is a self-taught artist. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions internationally, offered for sale in commercial galleries, and donated to multiple institutions. He has won numerous awards and honours.

Images can trigger conversations, sometimes far better than words. Internationally known political cartoonist Patrick Chappatte and journalist Anne-Frederique Widmann have come together to organize a one of a kind exhibition, entitled Windows on Death Row: Art From Inside and Outside the Prison Walls in the USA between 2015 and 2018.

It featured over 60 works of some of the most famous American political cartoonists as well as artworks drawn from a more unlikely source, death row inmates. By presenting a variety of perspectives, from both inside and outside of the prison walls, Chappatte and Widmann hope to stimulate conversation on an issue that touches politics, race, morality, and the question of equality under the law.

As an introduction to the exhibition "Endurance" from Kenneth Reams, 6 artworks from different prisoners are presented from their series at the entrance of Le Cube Gallery.

To learn more about Kenneth Reams, click on the links below to discover some podcasts and additional projects:

• Resistance, performance by Kenneth Reams as part of "Poésies en mouvement, 11 – Résistance" (November 2020)
• By Eighteen et Strange Fruits,  two performances by Kenneth Reams as part of "Poésies en mouvement, 10 – ctrl/esc" (November 2019)