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From the winter solstice back to the SUMMER SOLSTICE in Washington DC! ☀️For the start of the capricorn Season (my season ♑✨ - bday countdown is on!) I'm challenging myself to post more about key moments of this past year(s). Moments I'm still holding on to and generally only share glimps of through my stories. But let's make these permanent here!To start off, back to June 22nd, Washington DC where I flew all the way from Salvador da Bahia to play a special set at the @smithsonian_africanart @smithsonian for the longuest day of summer!Invited by curator @jaypather to take part in 'The Earth Still Shakes' live art series that focused on healing sounds, I figured this Time and Space was a full circle moment where I could only pay a tribute to the #QUIETSTORM - the groundbreaking radio show originated at @howard1867 @whurfm by Melvin Lindsey 🕊️ that influenced my love for Soul music and my djing practice of playing vinyl records of R&B slow jams and downtempo tunes for erotic daydreams of a tender and sensuous black life.Truely a moment I'll cherish FOREVER and the cherry on top was the presence of 2 of my favorite people/artists @ibruji who shared the stage w/ @loce.moon 💫 Thank you for lifing together, for sharing ur sultry vocals with us and even for styling me 🙏🏾Thank you to the DC crowd for giving me LIFE! You all show up and show out to make bliss that night. I felt so honored to spin this selection for you and co-create this glorious hour that felt like a cook out at the museum! (part of me feel like @honeydijon would've been proud)Finally, thx to the team at the Smithsonian African Art museum for the warm welcome and most importantly to @bashirtheengeneer1 and Stefan for the technical support 🤲🏾To my fellows, musiciens, DJs, VJs @chmba @nkosenathikoela @inkakendzia y'all killed it!💥To @neneperei a quiet shaker ✨Till we all cross paths again on the dancefloorAnd happy holiday y'all ! 🙌🏾🤍-En ce début de saison des Capricornes (bday season ♑✨), je me mets au défi de poster plus de moments clés de cette année. Petit throwback sur le SOLSTICE D'ÉTÉ au Smithsonian African Art Museum de Washington DC! #summersolstice #dj #smithsonian by @sonxseed

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Quelle saison! 72 jours, que vous activez et participez à l'univers de Nyum Elucubris 🤲🏾💫🌈10 semaines de danses, de cerceaux, de cordes à sauter, d’éclats de rire, de présences lumineuses et de flamboyance partagée pour me rappeler à quel point notre joie est politique. (Et 1 semaine de plus pour faire l'expérience de cet espace, jusqu'au 11 mai).Gratitude, un immense MERCI à chaque Supernova.Celleux qui m'inspirent chaque jour, qui ont partagé leur mots, leur force et leurs moves avec moi.Merci aux artistes de cette exposition qui ont ouvert plus grand mon chemin. 🌀Aux artistes, inspiratrices, derangeuses de Nyum Elucubris : @c_mariejulie @josefantjam @ma.wena @cheetah369 @lekitaclub @mrsrootsbooks @okay_kay_kay_ @nooru_boxÀ l'équipe du @palaisdetokyoCuration : @derive_surlenil assistée par @chafrenayScénographie / architecture : @sharmilygProduction : Maëva Gomez @michelparibonfilsTechnique : Jake McCarthy, Martin AlbouyMédiation : @radhiateur @miangalyofficial@lacuillere__ Ainsi que toutes les équipes de sécurité, entretien et communication/les personnes dont je n'ai pas les noms. Merci ne suffit pas.To @theladyalma a legend and forever my inspiration.À Philippe Berry dont l'arc-en-ciel continue de nous accompagner.-What a season! 72 days, during which you activated and participated in the universe of Nyum Elucubris 🤲🏾💫🌈10 weeks of dances, hoops, jump ropes, bursts of laughter, bright presences, and shared flamboyance to remind me how political our joy is. (And 1 more week to experience this space, until May 11th).Gratitude, a huge THANK YOU to each Supernova.Those who inspire me every day, who shared their words, their strength, and their moves with me.Thank you to the artists of this exhibition who have opened up my path. 🌀To the artists,and disruptors of Nyum Elucubris, the entire team at Palais de Tokyo, and Lady Alma, always.#NyumElucubris #JoieCollective #Supernovas #Flamboyance by @sonxseed

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Les mots ne suffisent pas mais on va essayer..Merci de show up comme vous le faite depuis le vernissage, de commenter, de critiquer, d'apprécier, de flâner dans cet espace d'exposition dédié à la cinéaste Sarah Maldoror et plus largement dédié aux Bayam-Sellam et autres 'chercheurs d'or'cc @mayamihindou qui pour reprendre les mots de ma dear @cheetah369 prononcés hier, montre à quel point l'économie informelle est le coeur de l'organisation de nos résistances. Des 'Safous pour les Bayam-Sellam' est un sanctuaire qui se dresse en 6 figures d'acier pour honorer une constellation d'êtres et de lieux. Des prunes acheminées du Mbay, aux étales des vendeuses de rue de Château Rouge, de l'intention de Sarah Maldoror à archiver le vivant dans les luttes d'indépendance et de porter la lumière sur les femmes révolutionnaires, comme les Bayam-Sellam qui 'passent' des safous comme des armes de guérison pour que le reste d'une vaste diaspora, déplacée, puisse manger sa culture et retrouver un samblant de goût du pays.. Du besoin de représenter notre diversité et notre flamboyance fugitive par tant de couleurs et de textures ou même, l'urgence de perpétuer une vision, celle des émancipations maquisardes, proactives et chantantes où l'utopie est un ressort salvateur, futuriste, ancré dans le continent et dans le monde, afrodisasporique en somme. Une écologie marronne par nous, pour nous.Il y a encore tant à dire mais je terminerais par 'A be Bayam-Sellam, ledhana di nwahak ban' 💗🤲🏾 ✨Encore merci à toutes les personnes qui ont travaillé de près où de loin sur le projet et à l'équipe curatoriale de m'avoir fait confiance @francois_piron @cedric.fauq @clement.raveu @erell._.lpMerci particulier à celleux dont le soutien et la bienveillance m'a porté à bout de bras même quand la production à sa fin, semblait insurmontable. You know who you are.Vinyles prêtés par @annouchkade (W Frelimo, Sodade)Mixage sonore : @ibrujiAccompagnement céramique à L'orfèvrerie : @rosalychaveAccompagnement céramique au Wonder : @fightalicefight @sharonalfassiAssistante modelage : @makedamnesiaRecherche photo : @a.soartTransport des mat. premières : Timothée Ngos📸 1+2 : Aurélien Mole by @sonxseed

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Kôô: Libations for grief' closes its doors this week at @entre_vienna If you are in Vienna, I invite you tomorrow, this Friday June 12th at 6pm at ENTRE (Burgasse 24) to read texts with me, hum some melodies together and share a tea blend to transition into the new season.🌀I'm so elated this space became a refuge to express what I have been going through for a year, perhaps more..Grieving past selves, friendships, family ties, recent ancestors (from matriarchs to parent), the water on my head I once felt, threatened lands that bear our sacred source of creation.. all ancestral foundations shaken, torn. While the hardships proceeded in their doings, the snail, the kôô has been a locus through which I get to grow while being witnessed and held accountable by the matrice. And accompanied by the very hymns and ritual songs that have held me for years - 'Letes ñem', 'Halleluyia Ma Bota', 'Mama a nwo', 'Kôô nyañal wanda', 'Saudação à Oxala'... - I can say sometimes I may be scared, but I'm never afraid (anymore).I must thank the very people who invited, curated, encouraged, facilitated, installed, mediated, wrote, worked with all the passion and commitment such proposition required. (Independent spaces are truly a gem)@gui_ma_ @rafal_morusiewicz @marilynvolkman@simsimdogan @leticiaknoop Anne Faucheret Scott.To the artists, art workers, devotees, dérangeures, cuties who keep on opening up the path and building some of the strongest work and experiences I have been able to witness these past years in Vienna, Paris, Lyon, Genf, BX, Douala, Dakar, FdF, Goyave, Salvador, SP.. You inspire me to keep pushing.To the loved ones who created this alchemization with me and led me into new territories; through geographies and beyond the visible.. My friends and families, ma mère, mes Mbombos, Marie-Irène Ngapeth-Biyong, artist and filha de Oxala @ina.okun and many more. Without you all nothing is possible. Finally, special thx to @biennale.wien, to the @pivopesquisa residency + @stelakehde ceramic studio in São Paulo where the 'Chocalhos de caracóis' were born. And to @theforest.creativeloft Raining season. To more sonic offerings 💫 by @sonxseed

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One more week before the closing of our current show at ENTRE! Please join us on Friday, June 12 for the finissage of Kôô: Libations for Grief (Samples, Spirals, and Sonic Offerings), a solo show by Soñ Gweha @sonxseed 🌀 Curated by Guilherme Maggessi @gui_ma_ Marilyn Volkman @marilynvolkman and Rafał Morusiewicz @rafal_morusiewicz as part of @biennale.wienSoñ will be present in the space for a gathering around the exhibition’s ongoing threads of grief, listening, ritual, and ecological attunement. We’ll spend time with the work one last time, to share, spread some words and infuse ideas and tastes through a collective poetic gesture - we hope you can come by and close the exhibition with us. Location: ENTRE | Burggasse 24/4, 1070 Vienna June 12, 18:00 The exhibition is part of the Klima Biennale’s Immediate Matters program “SPEAK WE MUST WE MUST SPEAK”, and it draws from the conceptual and material cosmology of Gweha’s ongoing project KÔÔ / ACHATINA / IGBIN: the snail’s queer erotics and the spiral of time. Centering the Achatina snail - known as Kôô among the Bassa people of Cameroon - the exhibition reframes grief as an invasive yet generative force.With support from Klima Biennale Wien, Stadt Wien Kultur, and @kulturneubau, a special thanks to Leticia Knoop & Sima Dogan for all their contributions to the project as mediators.@sonxseed @gui_ma_ @rafal_morusiewicz @marilynvolkman @leticiaknoop @entre_vienna @biennale.wien @independentspaceindex @kulturneubau @stadtwien by @sonxseed

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As the summer begins and the Klima Biennale’26 comes to a close, ENTRE is delighted to remind that “Kôô: Libations for Grief” by Soñ Gweha @sonxseed will remain open every Friday and Saturday until June 13th, 2026. Kôô: Libations for Grief (Samples, Spirals, and Sonic Offerings) is a site-specific exhibition of sculptural, sonic, and video works by Soñ Gweha.The exhibition specifically highlights how Black and African ancestral knowledges around land, nature, spiritual syncretism, and history of resistance intersect amidst the current aftereffects of colonialism. Showcasing a nonlinear approach to researching the artist’s lens of the history of endangered songs, lost files, and memory. The exhibition is curated by Guilherme Maggessi, Marilyn Volkman, Rafał Morusiewicz and made possible through with support from the Klima Biennale Wien (provided through the cultural department of the City of Vienna Stadt Wien Kultur) and cultural funding from the 7th district, Wien-Neubau. @kulturneubau @stadtwien @biennale.wien 15.04-12.06.2026 : Fri & Sat : 2-7pm by @sonxseed

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Join us today, 15 APRIL at 7PM for an artist talk by Soñ Gweha" @sonxseed 🌀.In this talk moderated by the exhibition’s curators, Soñ Gweha will expand on the themes around their exhibition at ENTRE. The event is conceptualized as an open conversation where the artist will guide us through the development of their works through listening sessions and the sharing of work-in-process footage. The conversation will be held in English. by @sonxseed

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Thanks to all for coming out yesterday for the opening of “Kôô: Libations for Grief” by Soñ Gweha" @sonxseed 🌀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻—𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟵𝘁𝗵, 𝟮:𝟬𝟬 𝗣𝗠 – 𝟳:𝟬𝟬 𝗣𝗠. (Artist talk today at 7PM!)We’re especially grateful to Soñ Gweha for traveling to Vienna to share the work in person, to Anne Faucheret for curating the project within the Klima Biennale’s Immediate Matters program, SPEAK WE MUST WE MUST SPEAK and to Leticia and also Sima for continuing to make it all happen. The exhibition is curated by Guilherme Maggessi, Marilyn Volkman, Rafał Morusiewicz and made possible with support from the Klima Biennale Wien (provided through the cultural department of the City of Vienna | Stadt Wien Kultur) and cultural funding from the 7th district, Wien-Neubau. @kulturneubau @stadtwien @biennale.wien by @sonxseed

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À propos du Kôô.. Une tradition ancestrale Bassa du Cameroun. Quand je parle de deuil et de chants rituels avec ma mater 🤍🐚🌀À découvrir dans la dernière version de la vidéo continue 'Hymns (the bonus files)' issue de la série I'll sing for you when you leave. Vidéo présente au sein de mon exposition solo 'Kôô: Libations for grief' à @entre_vienna dans le cadre de @biennale.wien Cur. @gui_ma_ @rafal_morusiewicz@marilynvolkmanAbout the Kôô.. An ancestral Bassa Cameroonian tradition. When I talk about grief and ritual songs with my mom. 💧More in the last version of the ongoing video 'Hymns (the bonus files)' as part of the I'll sing for your when you leave series.Video on view in my new solo 'Kôô: Libations for grief' at @entre_vienna for @biennale.wien Curation by @gui_ma_ @rafal_morusiewicz @marilynvolkman ✨#documentary #237 #koo #grief by @sonxseed

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SAVE THE DATE 👀👀👀👀On 14.04 (2-9pm), ENTRE softly opens the exhibition “Kôô: Libations for Grief” by Soñ Gweha @sonxseed 🌀The exhibition is part of this year’s Klima Biennale @biennale.wien and takes place within Immediate Matters’ program SPEAK WE MUST WE MUST SPEAK, curated by Anne Faucheret 💞🐚🐚🐚Kôô: Libations for Grief (Samples, Spirals, and Sonic Offerings)an exhibition by Soñ Gwehacurated by Guilherme Maggessi, Rafał Morusiewicz, and Marilyn VolkmanFor Klima Biennale ‘26, ENTRE presents Kôô: Libations for Grief, a site-specific exhibition of sculptural, sonic, and video works by Soñ Gweha. The works center on the “Achatina” snail (“Kôô,” as Cameroon’s Bassa people call it), which is listed among the world’s most destructive invaders. With invasiveness imagined here as a generative modality of grief, the snail plays the role of a healing spiritual entity, a symbol of communal care, and a sonic device for ecological attunement.The exhibition takes places from 14.04-13.06 at ENTRE, Burggasse 24/4, 1070 Vienna.During the Focus Week of Immediate Matters, the exhibition will be open everyday from 2-7pm 🔮For more information on events and tours, stay tuned and also follow @biennale.wien by @sonxseed

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Visit the Jan van Eyck Academie during @museumnachtmaastricht and experience the work of JvE participant Soñ Gweha (@sonxseed), 𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐩𝐞𝐱 𝟏 (𝐎𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬), 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐.The installation is an intimate video installation with chimes suspended at approximately eye level. Against the backdrop of their own biography, which is intimately interwoven with resistance practices, Soñ Gweha explores self-empowerment as a strategy for healing. At the center of the video is "Nyum Supernova". This being rooted in Afrofuturist and Afrofeminist strategies of emancipation, is almost namesake to the deity of healing from Cameroonian spirituality of the Bassa people. The figure, recurring in various works by the artist, reveals their burst of life, a flash of a sunray reflected on water, while they traverses multiple cycles of self-soothing words in the video in question. "I AM HEALED. / I HEAL." repeats Nyum Supernova with a genderless, sometimes distorted voice, mantra-like – as if to emphasize that this very cycle, that the healing of trauma, is a process that is never completed, but rather continuous. Just as centuries of colonialism and white patriarchal supremacist ideology have been.With the chimes emulating another wordly flowing sound of water, Soñ Gweha or SOÑXSEED formulates an invitation to visitors to play the chimes (as instructed in the video, with index and middle finger). In this way, the various elements function like "vectors" for Soñ Gweha, which altogether with the video form a kind of equation or method of soothing regulation.Museumnacht Maastricht 2026Friday April 10, 20:00-1:00Images courtesy of the artist. by @sonxseed

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Soñ Gweha aka SOÑXSEED – @sonxseed – is a transdisciplinary artist, DJ, researcher, community organizer, and herbalist in training. Their creative universe unfolds across multiple imaginaries – utopian, erotic, spiritual – expressed through a variety of mediums such as music, analog DJing, video, performance, installation, sculpture, and collective practices. They draw on Black, Queer, and visionary mythologies, connecting human and non-human worlds as well as visible and invisible realms. Through immersive environments, Soñ Gweha opens spaces for reimagined forms of intimacy and joy, where sorrow, resistance, solace, aliveness, and celebration are woven together.🔥 Welcome to the Jan van Eyck Academie @sonxseed 📷 Safou Lover - Supernova Fruits - © Jennifer Markwirth#janvaneyckacademie #maastricht #artistresidency #artistinresidence by @sonxseed

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