Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: THE SOUL STATION

In the organizer's words:

In this game-based installation, you are a player in a speculative universe. It confronts you with your own prejudices and mechanisms of exclusion, while you gain insights into an archive of voices and stories from the past and present.

THE SOUL STATION is Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's first solo presentation in Germany and presents an overview of video games from the past five years alongside a newly commissioned work. The exhibition invites visitors to explore their own ethical and moral decision-making processes in game-based installations and fictional universes, questioning far-reaching structures and histories of marginalization. The work YOU CAN'T HIDE ANYTHING, developed especially for the exhibition, will be shown in two episodes; the second episode will be shown for the first time on September 12 during Berlin Art Week.

THE SOUL STATION presents a comprehensive overview of Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's oeuvre with works from the past five years. Together they trace an artistic practice that combines lived experience with speculative fiction to illuminate positions and histories that are often simplistically represented or even disregarded. The newly commissioned work YOU CAN'T HIDE ANYTHING builds on works by Brathwaite-Shirley in which the audience functions as an artistic medium. The work is the culmination of a journey through the exhibition that invites visitors to engage with individual perception, decision-making processes and their own prejudices.