dove/Chris Kirubi
WILDPLASSEN
Softcover
Penguin Random House, 2024
Part of the Reading List compiled by artist Ain Bailey to accompany her exhibition The Jamaica Project at Camden Art Centre, 10 April 2026/14 June 2026.
dove / Chris Kirubi's WILDPLASSEN is a finely-wrought debut collection. The weather surrounds, as subjectivity is carefully interrogated through typographic gesture and image. Thinking with Sembéne, Glissant, Nourbese Philip and others, we are ushered into a space of translation and study reflecting on dispossession, native informants and racial categorisation. "Wildplassen" is a legal term for public urination in which wildness is invoked as an inappropriate occupation of public (urban) space. This collection transfigures the borders of air, city and landscape; language, lyric and page with instability and waywardness.