It was a perfect day, before things took a turn. documenta fifteen had just opened to the public, celebratory events were taking place across Kassel, and, as culture writer Siddhartha Mitter observed, everything and everyone seemed to be vibing.
'How can you capture a feeling?' asked one curator from the Philippines; others from Hong Kong and Nepal agreed. You had to be there.
At the heart of Maaya entrepreneurship is knowing your community and yourself—an ethos that comes through beyond collective participations in Kassel. A case in point is artist Amol K Patil's stunning presentation Black Masks on Roller Skates (2022), which unfolds across a massive chunk of Hübner areal's basement.
A series of bronze sculptures and paintings depict body parts, sometimes disembodied at other times multiplied, as with a clay-like slab of cast bronze from which ten profiles line up vertically.
