2024-12-15 18:46:00
“My truth is not recognized,” says artist Ngozi Ajah Schommers, referring to the German healthcare system and her special role as a black woman. “Empathy in the hospital is also a medicine”. And this empathy would be missing. Women like her are belittled and their problems, inevitably different from those of men, are not adequately recognised. Ngozi Ajah Schommers is a black woman from Nigeria and lives in Bremen. That’s why this topic concerns you women’s healthcare black women in Germany. It’s about managing cultural influences. For example with nudity.
Phrases like these, which he often hears uttered by doctors, gave the exhibition its title: “I’m sorry”, “I can’t help you”. Other phrases include “I don’t understand you” or simply “difficult, difficult, difficult.”