Dak'Art 2010
Looking back, facing forward? The 9th Biennial of Contemporary African Art in Dakar, Senegal.
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Hymne à nous ou Eldorado
Video projection
This year's winner of the Senghor Award is Moridja Kitenge Banza, a Congolese artist living in Nantes, France. He presents an installation that, among others, features the not so original idea of a united African currency as well as a romantic take on slave vessels. Most memorable though is his video projection Hymne à Nous (Hymn to us). It shows the artist himself, naked and in plurality, his manifold figure arranged like a choir, singing a French paraphrase of the anthems of Congo and Belgium based on Beethoven's Ode an die Freude, the European anthem. It kind of happily connected slave history, Giorgio Agamben's concept of Homo Sacer and the spirit of revolution into a very catchy piece of art.
© Photo: Jelle Bouwhuis
Looking back, facing forward? The 9th Biennial of Contemporary African Art in Dakar, Senegal.