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Kasala: The Congo as Kasala: The was included was in the 22nd Biennale are the results a research of A journal with a text by culturalA journal with by theorist a text and Arndt accompanies the exhibition. Lotte curator Andrew its was Artistic Director. Slaughterhouse Dreams of or the First Human, Bende’s Error from Sydney of September March to 2020. Brook Michaela Oberhofer. In a slightlyversion, different Fiction - Art Worlds between - ArtFiction Present and Worlds Past presented from March 2020. 2019 to Novembre Guyer Nanina and by The exhibition curated was Bende’s Error residency carried out Sammy by Museum Baloji at Rietberg the exhibition Zürich for The works presented in the exhibition Slaughterhouse Dreams of or the First Human, d’Automne - Imane Farès is proud to present is proud to Farès - Imane the d’Automne artist’s second solo the exhibition gallery. at solo exhibition in a Parisian public institutionsoloexhibition - the in a Parisian co-producedBeaux-Arts de Paris, the Festival by Just as Sammy two Baloji preparing is unveil to sculpturesnew monumental - commissioned open his first to - and the Rmn - Grand Palais by

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ZEE Kunstmuseum aan zee, Ostend A Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, he has received For the year 2019-2020, he is a resident of the Aca His recent personal exhibitions include Beaux- He has recently participated in the Sydney Biennial His use of photographic archives allows him to As he stated in a recent interview : "I’m not inte Konsthall and Aarhus Kunsthal (2020); (2020); Kunsthal Aarhus and Konsthall ments d’une histoire, A Blueprint and for Snakes Toads terdam (2018); seumcultuur Strombeek (2018); Congo, Sammy Baloji and Filip de Boeck Toronto and WIELS, Brussels (2016-2017), and (2020), documenta (Kassel/Athens, 14 2017), the Lyon Biennial (2015), the Venice Biennial (2015), the Photoquai Festival at the Musée du Quai Branly (Paris, 2015). For more information about Sammy Baloji, please visit: https://imanefares.com/en/artistes/sammy-baloji/ Sammy Baloji (b. 1978 in Lubumbashi, DR Congo) lives and works between Lubumbashi and Brussels. Sammy Baloji received a degree in Information and Commu nication Sciences from the University of Lubumbashi and a degree from the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin. He started in September 2019 his PhD artistic research Lukasa: towards and Kasala "Contemporary project a Reconfiguration of Identity and Geopolitics" at Sint Antwerpen. Lucas Prince the including distinctions, and awards numerous Claus Prize, the Spiegel Prize of the African Photography the and Biennale, Dakar the and Bamako of Encounters Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. démie de à - Villa Médicis. Since 2018, he teaches each summer at the Sommerakademie in Salz burg. Sammy Baloji co-founded in 2008 the Rencontres Picha/Biennale Lubumbashi. de Arts de Paris (2020); Collecting and (2014). Since 2005, Sammy Baloji has been exploring the memo ry and history ofthe Democratic Republic of Congo. His work is an ongoing research on the cultural, architectu ral and industrial heritage of the Katanga region, as well as a questioning of the impact of Belgian colonization. colonial ancient comparing space, and time manipulate imperialism. economic contemporary with narratives His video works, installations and photographic series highlight how identities are shaped, transformed, perverted and reinvented. His critical view of contem porary societies is a warning about how cultural clichés continue to shape collective memories and thus allow social and political power games to continue to dictate behaviour. human rested in colonialism as nostalgia, or in it as a thing of the past, but in the continuation of that system." ------gathers a series of [Sammy Baloji][Sammy opposes a counter-narrative to The exhibition’s starting point is Sammy Baloji’s Kasala: The Slaughterhouse of DreamsKasala: of Slaughterhouse The or the Painful voicesPainful though, as express they the suf General Production: Twenty Nine Studio & Production UV Prints on mirrors Design and Production: Orfée Grandhomme and Ismaël Bennani (Überknackig) with Jean-Daniel Bourgeois (KGN) Gelgon Antoine and Ozeray development: Etienne Application (Luuse) the Congo. —Lotte Arndt, from excerpt the June exhi 2020, journal. bition's Kasala brings the "missing in voices." ferings Katanga’s of artisanal miners, the bloody repression liberation of movements, the long list politicalof murders the Democratic in Republic of created a Kasala, poem a Luba combining the reci elements of tation from the genealogy a cele of mythological, person cosmological with brated and historical fragments. (...) Going such beyond silences which objects,de-contextualization the duals.. (...) duals.. the translocation artifacts of separates that them fromtheir use and cultural meaning: by invited SammyBaloji, the writer Fiston Mwanza Mujila during a trip to the Congo, to a trip during then a Belgian colony. These photographs, conserved which are today in Zurich, are considered from novel an ethnogra phic perspective because Himmelheber was inte rested the Congolese in people as creative indivi hunting horns,hunting digital and an interactive touchscreen. critical questioning German of ethnologist Hans photographic Himmelheber’s (1908-2003) archives, which include pictures collected 1939 in years, Sammy Baloji has juxtaposed colonial images with the experience the people of from southern Congo regions mining. devastated by He now articulates them through multiple mediums: digital collages printed on mirrors, film, scarified and hitherto uncover inaudible stories. Human,First Bende’s Error whichworks in collection and museum archives transmission Luba tensely to relate practices. For In resonance In with the powerful anti-racist move ment has that toppled statues settlers of and aroundslavers the world the summer in 2020, of explores colonial tenaciously Baloji Sammy archives order in undermine to their authority

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