space-time inflexions
23 August – 17 September 2025
exhibition Opening: Friday, 22 August 2025, 6:30 PM
Speculative Arts Festival: Saturday, 6 September 2025
At MARS Frankfurt, Ginnheimer Landstraße 35, 60487 Frankfurt am MainSpace-Time InFlexions is a group exhibition curated by Natasha A. Kelly and hosted at MARS, Frankfurt. Featuring Ana Paula dos Santos, Verdiana Albano, and Vanessa Amoah Opoku, it brings together Afrodiasporic perspectives through photography, video, and speculative installations.
Rooted in Afrofuturism, the exhibition explores how Black realities – past, present, and imagined – are visualised and materialised. The featured artists use memory, speculative fiction, and technology to reclaim historical narratives, challenge Eurocentric art canons, and create new temporalities.
Ana Paula dos Santos uses analogue photography to transform the act of seeing into a physical, intimate process. Verdiana Albano works with a GDR-made camera as both a nostalgic object and a tool for reclaiming visual autonomy. Vanessa Amoah Opoku merges digital and physical worlds, reimagining Black bodies as data subjects and using technology not for Western ideals of progress, but for empowering alternative futures.
The exhibition also interrogates the role of the Black female body in technological spaces, reframing lenses and cameras as extensions of the body and tools of resistance.
At its core, Space-Time InFlexions is not a lesson in art history but a sensory, poetic experience. It opens up space for reflection, emotion, and action – through images that remember, resist, and reimagine.
Natasha A. Kelly
@natasha.a.kelly
Ana Paula dos Santos
@dossantos_ana_paula
Verdiana Albano
@verdianaalbano
Vanessa Amoah Opoku
www.vanessaopoku.com
@vaopoku
Mawuto Dotou
@smawuto
Photo: Verdiana Albano
Photo: Ana Paula dos Santos
Photo: Verdiana Albano
This exhibition is in cooperation with deutsche börse photography foundation and is supported by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Arts and Culture.
