Spirit Faith Grace Rage at Kunstinstituut Melly is the first exhibition in Europe dedicated to Brooklyn-based photographer and archivist Marilyn Nance. Spanning five decades, the exhibition traces Marilyn’s longstanding commitment to documenting African diasporic life and preserving personal archives as essential sites of historical knowledge. The exhibition brings together a selection of photographs accompanied by sonic fragments collected by Marilyn and arranged by artist and technologist Ali Santana.

Marilyn Nance has been a two-time finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photography. Her work has been included in major public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Library of Congress. Her photographs have also been featured in numerous publications, including The World History of Photography, History of Women in Photography, and The Black Photographers Annual.

During MOMO Festival on Friday 17 April, access to the exhibition is free. The MOMO Open Call project (يالله تنام) Yalla Tnam by Rebecca Lillich // Krüger & Ahmad Mallah is also freely accessible at this location.