"Show me your Shelves!” realizes an artistic dialogue between Black artists from Germany and the US. First in Detroit, then later this year in Houston. 

This project is conceived by C& founders and editors-in-chief Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba and features artists Bree Gant (Detroit), Jennifer Harge (Detroit), James Gregory Atkinson (Frankfurt) and Janine Jembere (Berlin) will be presenting their installations, films, sound and performance pieces in different branches of the Detroit Public Library.

Show me your shelves 
Detroit Public Library
July 17 – August 18, 2019 

Commissioned by C& and in the in the framework of the German campaign Wunderbar Together – The Year of German-American Friendship, initiated by the German Federal Foreign Office (AA), the Goethe-Institut, and supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI).

James Gregory Atkinson's film and film premiere are additionally supported by the Hessische Kulturstiftung (HKST).

Image: 
The day I stopped kissing my father 
a film by James Gregory Atkinson scored by Ahya Simone camera/edit Marcel Izquirdo Torres, 2019