Colonial legacies
type: CreativeWork
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic)
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Artists--Congo (Democratic Republic)
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126550
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126562
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320127873
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320129674
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320129814
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320132925
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330151381
abstract: "In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo whose lens-based art attends to the afterlives and mutations of Belgian colonialism in postcolonial Congo. Focusing on three artists and one artist collective, Nugent analyses artworks produced by Sammy Baloji, Michèle Magema, Georges Senga and Kongo Astronauts, each of whom offers a different perspective onto this history gleaned from their own experiences. In their photography and video art, these artists rework existent images and redress archival absences, making visible people and events occluded from dominant narratives. Their artworks are shown to offer a re-reading of the colonial and immediate post-independence past, blurring the lines of historical and speculative knowledge, documentary and fiction. Nugent demonstrates how their practices create a new type of visual record for the future, one that attests to the ramifications of colonialism across time"--Provided by publisher.
author: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310222859
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310222859
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Mining Lubumbashi -- Chapter 2. The Maintenance of Mobutu's Zaire -- Chapter 3. The Image of Lumumba -- Chapter 4. From Kinshasa to the Moon -- Coda. Between History and individual histories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Colour Plate Gallery.
subject of: Statement
  additional type: lang
  text: In English.
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301317646

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