# It was never really that good

It was never really that good at Soft Power, Saturday 14 November 2026, 18:00.

- Venue: Soft Power
- Go to page: https://softpower.world/de/projekt/it-was-never-really-that-good/

![It was never really that good](https://noky.io/images/4941b1422e52437f23fdda4d2770027a908eb289870b8894a4207052af25753f-2000.webp)

A solo exhibition of two video installations by Basma al-Sharif at soft power. The title comes from a deliberate mistranslation of a line from Nino Ferrer's hit song Le Sud (1975), turning the song's melancholy over a lost paradise into a refusal of nostalgic forgetting. The works show how integration policy and neo-colonial promises of progress act as tools of ideological assimilation that make belonging conditional. The exhibition runs from 14.11. to 19.12.2026.

## Dates

- Saturday 14 November 18:00 — Soft Power

Written by a model, sources: [indexberlin.com](https://www.indexberlin.com/exhibitions/list/46385/it-was-never-really-that-good), [softpower.world](https://softpower.world/de/projekt/it-was-never-really-that-good/)

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