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The Blood of History
What happens when Judith no longer holds the head of Holofernes in her hands, but a bronze from Benin? A contemporary visual conception brings European art history and African cultures...
The Blood of History
What happens when Judith no longer holds the head of Holofernes in her hands, but a bronze from Benin? A contemporary visual conception brings European art history and African cultures...
Between Kalashnikovs and Cultural Heritage Laws...
One bus had broken down. It stood alone by the roadside, without military protection, while the heavily armed escort continued with the remaining buses. Six buses had left Bamako-Faladié together...
Between Kalashnikovs and Cultural Heritage Laws...
One bus had broken down. It stood alone by the roadside, without military protection, while the heavily armed escort continued with the remaining buses. Six buses had left Bamako-Faladié together...
These photos look like documents of a bygone era.
But they do not document anything that actually happened. Using artificial intelligence, they combine West African portrait photography, colonial archives, fashion images and historical exhibition scenes into a possible past....
These photos look like documents of a bygone era.
But they do not document anything that actually happened. Using artificial intelligence, they combine West African portrait photography, colonial archives, fashion images and historical exhibition scenes into a possible past....
Memories of a Past That Never Happened
At first glance, these photographs appear to come from 1950s New York. They show museum visits, gallery openings, shop windows, elegant gatherings, and seemingly incidental encounters with African art. Their...
Memories of a Past That Never Happened
At first glance, these photographs appear to come from 1950s New York. They show museum visits, gallery openings, shop windows, elegant gatherings, and seemingly incidental encounters with African art. Their...
An object’s biography – The Night of Djenné-Jeno
...one can imagine ‘grave robbers’ plundering graves beneath a tent in the pale glow of a camping lamp, whilst a full moon tries to illuminate their sinister goings-on.I took the...
An object’s biography – The Night of Djenné-Jeno
...one can imagine ‘grave robbers’ plundering graves beneath a tent in the pale glow of a camping lamp, whilst a full moon tries to illuminate their sinister goings-on.I took the...
The Myth of Provenance Research
When Historical Narratives Replace the Biography of an Object An artwork has a history. Yet this history does not reveal itself automatically. It must be reconstructed from traces, documents, memories,...
The Myth of Provenance Research
When Historical Narratives Replace the Biography of an Object An artwork has a history. Yet this history does not reveal itself automatically. It must be reconstructed from traces, documents, memories,...