Jimmie Durham

Cherokee, born in Arkansas (USA) in 1940, Jimmie Durham is a poet, writer and visual artist who was an activist in the American Indian Movement in the Seventies. He principally works with salvaged materials and with his works he means, in the first place, to make a tongueincheek assault on the enduring colonial foundations which are firmly anchored to the base of Western culture. Durham's whole artistic and political process could in fact be summed up in his will to be so surgically specific it becomes universal. Visiting Professor of the tenth Advanced Course in Visual Arts held at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como, Durham's work has been exhibited in all the major international art collections, including Documenta, Kassel, the Venice Biennials, Sydney, Whitney Museum. Realized in collaboration with Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como