Christian Nyampeta: ‘In the Meantime’

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Artspeak Gallery

Christian Nyampeta’s exhibition ‘In The Meantime’ is a continuation of his research into modes of working together and being in common.

‘In the Meantime’ is a hosting structure and working space that is a meditation on the process of translation as a continual work-in-progress. A selection of Nyampeta’s publications will include his translations of selected texts from Alain Mabanckou’s Penser et écrire l'Afrique aujourd'hui, (2017) from French to English. The nature of translated texts is that they always exist ‘in the meantime.’ Dependent upon the context in which they were translated, they remain open to various interpretations by their readers.

The processes of translation and mistranslation becomes a form of sociality; one that creates, annotates, records, and interprets together. In this way, one never reads alone, but always with and alongside others. The differences between translations evoke concurrent or parallel forms of reading and legibility, unfolding 'within' and around an original frame of reference.