Would you rather be able to become invisible or to fly? Would you rather have the power to see into the future or to change the past? Would you rather be extremely tall or incredibly small? These ‘would you rather’ questions are entertaining and provocative because of the ways they reveal the ways of thinking of the person who answers them. In their wildly hypothetical manner, they help us to understand what we value -- being powerful or being free? Being strong or being safe? Being certain or being correct?

This year has presented us with many ‘would you rather’ moments and choices. Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, the series of decisions we made, both personal and communal, have forced us to moments of reckoning. Amid uncertainty, we’ve also been offered the chance to shape the world and feel more acutely how it shapes us.

When the world shifted under our feet, we all had to adapt to new and altered states of being. We found ourselves too large to contain. We found ourselves so small it was difficult to comprehend.

(Excerpt from the Curatorial Statement)

Work by Elias Jengo, TUKIONANA, Valerie Amani, Andrew Munuwa, Amani Abeid, Raza Mohamed, Lazaro Samwel, and Masoud Kibwana
Co-curated by Jesse Gerard and Rebecca Corey

Presented at Nafasi Art Space, Dar es Salaam, and as a VR exhibition
In partnership with FRISE Artist House (Hamburg, Germany)
September (in person) and December (online) 2020