3D-fotografering för reproduktion till konstutställning på Musee National i Kinshasa under 2023. I samarbete med den kongolesiska konstnären Freddy Tsimba. Del av forskningsprojekt. CJ har tidigare 3D fotograferat föremål på EM. Föremål främst från Johan Hammars samlingar.
Kort beskrivning av forskningsprojektet på engelska:
Titel: Reframing the encounter: From repressed colonial pile to a collaborative decolonial counter-archive
The artistic research project explores a repressed part of Swedish colonial history by unboxing and unfolding a
hidden trove of historical glass-plate negatives and reels of film. These dispersed material remains of the
missionary project will be collected and digitized together with two Congolese collaborators, renowned sculptor
Freddy Tsimba and art historian and writer André Yoka Lyé, with the aim of creating a new decolonial counter-archive.
Together we will revisit the colonial encounter between Swedish missionaries and Congolese people in the
Manyanga district, letting the unequal exchange of the past be transformed by a radical co-presence in the
present. We will explore how artists can intervene in processes of trauma, memory and historiography. Can
artistic methods help us confront a colonial past, from both a Congolese and Swedish perspective? Letting artistic
research interact with decolonial processes, we will make space for communities to respond to the archival
materials and formulate more truthful writings of history that incorporate multiple viewpoints. These responses
will be included in a new interactive counter-archive-object. The research, a groundbreaking intercultural
collaboration in dialouge with Etnografiska museet in Stockholm and the National Museum in Kinshasa, will
propose a new intercultural artist-led model for the re-evaluation and return of historical colonial photographs
and films.
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