Colonial Legacies
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Belgian colonialism
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Georges Senga
Kongo Astronauts
lens-based art
Michele Magema
photography
Sammy Baloji
The Democratic Republic of Congo
video
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- ISBN 9789462702998
- Dimensions: 170 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2021
- Publisher: Leuven University Press
- Publication City/Country: BE
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, Michele 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.
Gabriella Nugent is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Art History and World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia.
