Fotografie
in Africa: "Flash Afrique"
7 September – 11 November 2001
www.kunsthallewien.at
Or, to put
it more precisely, to have it told by the artists themselves. Because,
as the philosopher Homi K. Babha has noted "the right to tell a story
is more than just an act of linguistics."
This is a story, which deals with the tensions arising between a staged
self-stylization and a de-limited everyday life. A story, which shows
how surrealism entered into the professional photographic studios of Western
Africa and held sway in the streets of Dakar and Abidjan.
In conjunction with a music program and a symposium, a dialogue scenario is to be opened, to generate materials that would discuss the complex relation between Europe and Africa within the framing conditions of the 21st century. "Africa", says documenta-chief executive Okwui Enwezor, "must stop being the subject of the origin of Europeans’ psycho-sexual daydreams and nightmares."
Participating artists: Philip Kwame Apagya, Dorris Haron Kasco, Seydou Keita, Bouna Medoune Seye, Malick Sidibé, Boubacar Touré Mandémory
Curators:
Gerald Matt, Thomas Mießgang
foto:
Dorris Haron Kasco, Les fous d'Abidjan, 1990-1993, © Dorris Haron Kasco