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The Otolith Group Xenogenesis

“Xenogenesis” at Eindhoven’s Van Abbemuseum comprised ten works created between 2011 and 2018 by the Otolith Group, spearheaded by Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar. Arranging the works in a nonchronological order, the artists were careful not to position the show as a retrospective, but rather as a cross-section of their practice, framed by science-fiction writer Octavia Butler’s trilogy (1987–89), which

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