"A collaboration between PhotoEspana and The Walther Collection, the exhibition Events of the Social:Portraiture and Collective Agency--African Photography from The Walther Collection was on view from June 2 to August 22, 2021, at Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid Spain and was curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose"--Page facing title page.
Summary:
This book is a comprehensive investigation into photographic works by artists from the African continent and its diaspora. Taking the politics of the ?colonial gaze? as its starting point, Events of the Social looks at the diverse complexity of the nineteenth-century archive through a selection of vintage portraits, cartes de visite, postcards and album pages. Three generations of African artists from the 1940s till now then chart the changing features of African societies through portraiture, exploring notions of the self, gender, sexuality, race, social status and politics. The book also examines landscape and the built environment, showing how architecture and spatial planning convey social order and ideology while reflecting experiences of migration, colonialism, war and industrialization. Another group of artists, born after the mid-1970s, explores issues of social identity, lineage, questions of belonging and personal experiences. Artists featured include Sammy Baloji, Jodi Bieber, Mimi Cherono Ng?ok, Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin, David Goldblatt, Seydou KeiĀta, Zanele Muholi, Malick Sidibe and Mikhael Subotzky.00Exhibition: Circulo de Bellas Artes/Salle Picasso, Madrid, Spain (02.06. - 22.08.2021).
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