At Cornerhouse (Manchester, UK) until 8 May. Admission to the Galleries is free. For further info see www.cornerhouse.org
Odenbach's films combine video, found footage and cinematic references and are a personal response to artist's visits to South Africa, Cameroon, Rwanda and Ghana.
"The film ends as it begins, with a reference to (Ingmar Bergman's) Persona (1966). A boy haltingly raises his little hand and strokes his mother's face, projected bigger than life on the wall: a moving picture. "I can forget the images but never the smell," Odenbach wrote in his diary of Rwanda. But no one who sees this film will forget its images." Noemi Smolik in Art Forum Feb 2005
Also this EVENT promises to be good
Thu 14 April 6.00pm
Marlene Smith in Conversation with Mawuli Afatsiawo
Cornerhouse's artist in residence, Mawuli Afatsiawo (see www.madeinghana.org), will be talking to founding member of the Pan-Afrikan Connection group. Smith was instrumental in organising the exhibitions 'Black Art' 'An Exhibition of Work by Young Black Artists' and 'An Exhibition of Radical Black Art' in the 1980s, which blazed a trail for future Black and Asian art. She is now based at The Public, the largest community arts development in Europe.
3.00 (Concessions 2.00) Please book at Box Office 0161 200 1500. Gallery 1, Cornerhouse www.cornerhouse.org