i ain’t from no
east coast



2024






When you’re constantly asked where you come from,

it leads you to think more deeply about it.



        It was the time, it was the place 


A couple in a Saxon bar,

between Cold and civil war,

between ethnicities and ethics,

between plans and economy,

between dreams and promises


        I Have a Dream


Dismantled with the wall:

Promises,

Norms,

Patterns.


        and then – what next

        the show is over

The dream remains

        let’s go home


endures through generations.


I'm located at the end of two cultures.

not negative,

neutral

and


identityless

looking towards something new,

something uncertain.




This picture was created in co-operation with the DDR Museum Malchow.



Quotes:

“Jetzt ist die Zeit, hier ist der Ort”, Brothers Keepers: Adriano (Letzte Warnung), Song, Germany, 2001.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s: "Normalcy, Never Again / I Have a Dream," speech, Washington D.C. (USA), 1963.

May Ayim: gegen leberwurstgrau – für eine bunte republik (talk – talk – show für den bla – bla – kampf), blues in schwarz weiss / nachtgesang (first published 1985 / 1997), UNRAST Verlag Münster 2023.












Using the Stasi files of her parents, as well as personal and institutional image archives, Verdiana Albano explores her own fragmented
and secret-laden Afro-European history.




Dr. Franziska Kunze
Pinakothek der Moderne











Many thanks to the supporters who have seen the vision



             




This picture was created in co-operation with the DDR Museum Berlin.