Dak'Art 2008
State art or privatization? Scouting out the 8th Biennial of Contemporary African Art in Dakar.
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Le laboratoire Déberlinisation. 2007
(Laboratory of de-Berlinization)
Installation
The Brandenburg Gate and the outline of the map of Africa are pictured on two oversized matchbooks. In front of them are burnt and not yet ignited matches. The "de-Berlinization" alludes to the Africa Conference held in 1884 in Berlin, where the European colonial powers divided Africa up among themselves; the fire seems to stand for the ambivalence between destruction and liberation.
© Photo: Sabine Vogel
State art or privatization? Scouting out the 8th Biennial of Contemporary African Art in Dakar.