Kiluanji Kia Henda - Travelling to the Sun through the Night (Relié)

Travelling to the Sun through the Night presents the major works of the Angolan photographer Kiluanji Kia Henda spanning from 2005 to 2013. This book assembles photographs predominantly of Angola and its elusive capital, Luanda. In 2002 the civil war that tormented Angola since its independence in 1975 ended, and the early years of the new millennium were a particular post-war moment. During this time Luanda and Angola were engaged in unstable processes of remaking, remembering, and reinventing themselves.
Kia Henda chronicles these happenings in a strong theatrical and narrative gesture, creating inventive histories of his country, on the interval, as he puts it, "between history and fiction". Kiluanji Kia Henda was born in Luanda in 1979. His work has been shown in various exhibitions and institutions including the African Pavilion at the 23rd Venice Biennale, the 3rd Triennial of Guangzhou, and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
In 2012 Kia Henda received the National Award for Culture and the Arts from the Angolan Ministry of Culture. In 2014, he was selected as one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers by the US magazine Foreign Policy. Kia Henda lives in Luanda and Lisbon. Johannes Hossfeld was the director of the Goethe-Institut Kenya from 2007 to 2013. He was a fellow at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies in 2014.
Currently, he is the Head of Film, TV and Radio at the Headquarters of the Goethe-Institut, Munich.