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In this first solo exhibition of Mounir Eddib in the Netherlands, the artist reimagines his own lived experience of growing up in a working class neighborhood in the former coal mining town of Genk (Limburg, Belgium). Inspired by rappers such as Tupac as a young boy, he now takes this transatlantic street life connection to the next level.
Little Ghetto Boy is the title of a single by American soul legend Donny Hathaway (1945–1979). Hathaway powerfully evokes how it feels to grow up in “a ghetto”, a poor and often stigmatized area in which minority group members are concentrated because of societal pressures. He sings about how rough life can be, but also about believing in yourself, taking a stand, and making things change. “Everything has got to get better.”
Drawing on the writings of Black radical feminist bell hooks, the Little Ghetto Boy exhibition aims to bring the daily lives of descendants of people who migrated to work in the mines “from margin to center”. Genk was renowned for…
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In this first solo exhibition of Mounir Eddib in the Netherlands, the artist reimagines his own lived experience of growing up in a working class neighborhood in the former coal mining town of Genk (Limburg, Belgium). Inspired by rappers such as Tupac as a young boy, he now takes this transatlantic street life connection to the next level.
Little Ghetto Boy is the title of a single by American soul legend Donny Hathaway (1945–1979). Hathaway powerfully evokes how it feels to grow up in “a ghetto”, a poor and often stigmatized area in which minority group members are concentrated because of societal pressures. He sings about how rough life can be, but also about believing in yourself, taking a stand, and making things change. “Everything has got to get better.”
Drawing on the writings of Black radical feminist bell hooks, the Little Ghetto Boy exhibition aims to bring the daily lives of descendants of people who migrated to work in the mines “from margin to center”. Genk was renowned for…
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