12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

Messy Glossary

Term

Resilience

Texts

Proposed by Muna AnNisa Aikins

Dreams flow in my blood,

assurance blossoms from my bones

in my breath there is so much

power.

Perspective,

depth.

Empowerment.

Robust,

flexible

and gentle.

Creating, living. Creating life, unfolding.

Growing in change.

Shaping, reshaping.

Actively determining.

How chaos, resistance, and freedom poetize us.

Sensed verse by verse.

We are a poem

instinctively experienced knowledge,

intuitively made, guided.

Reflections, embodied.

Manifested.

And yet we must speak for ourselves in so many moments,

when we want to breathe.

Certainly, to be able to breathe in freedom.