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Sammy Baloji Imane Farès Imane Sammy Baloji Kasala: The Slaughterhouse of Dreams or the First Human, Bende’s Error 10 September – 18 December 2020 www.imanefares.com + 33 rue41 Mazarine, 75006 Paris ( Opening: 10 and 11 September, 4 – 8 pm 0 ) 1 46 33 13 13 – [email protected] 41 rue Mazarine, Paris 6e Hans Himmelheber, Masked figure and men, DR Congo, Pende region, 1939, scan of a Chalcopyrite from Kipushi mine, and your reflection in the mirror, 2020 UV Print on mirror 4 mm, American case in polished brushed brass, 50 x 70 cm Courtesy of the artist and Imane Farès PRESS RELEASE 1/5 Imane Farès Imane Just as Sammy Baloji is preparing to unveil two new monumental sculptures - commissioned by the Rmn - Grand Palais - and to open his first solo exhibition in a Parisian public institution - the Beaux-Arts de Paris, co-produced by the Festival d’Automne - Imane Farès is proud to present the www.imanefares.com + 33 rue41 Mazarine, 75006 Paris artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. ( 0 ) 1 46 33 13 13 – [email protected] The works presented in the exhibition Kasala: The Slaughterhouse of Dreams or the First Human, Bende’s Error are the results of a research residency carried out by Sammy Baloji at Museum Rietberg Zürich for the exhibition Congo as Fiction - Art Worlds between Past and Present presented from Novembre 2019 to March 2020. The exhibition was curated by Nanina Guyer and Michaela Oberhofer. In a slightly different version, Kasala: The Slaughterhouse of Dreams or the First Human, Bende’s Error was included in the 22nd Biennale of Sydney from March to September 2020. Brook Andrew was its Artistic Director. A journal with a text by cultural theorist and curator Lotte Arndt accompanies the exhibition. PRESS RELEASE 2/5 Imane Farès Imane In resonance with the powerful anti-racist move- ment that has toppled statues of settlers and slavers around the world in the summer of 2020, Sammy Baloji tenaciously explores colonial archives in order to undermine their authority and uncover hitherto inaudible stories. Kasala: The Slaughterhouse of Dreams or the First Human, Bende’s Error gathers a series of works in which collection and museum archives tensely relate to Luba transmission practices. For Photo: Sophie Nuytten years, Sammy Baloji has juxtaposed colonial Since 2005, Sammy Baloji has been exploring the memo- images with the experience of the people from ry and history of the Democratic Republic of Congo. His work is an ongoing research on the cultural, architectu- www.imanefares.com + 33 rue41 Mazarine, 75006 Paris southern Congo regions devastated by mining. He ral and industrial heritage of the Katanga region, as well ( 0 now articulates them through multiple mediums: as a questioning of the impact of Belgian colonization. ) 1 46 33 13 13 – [email protected] digital collages printed on mirrors, film, scarified His use of photographic archives allows him to manipulate time and space, comparing ancient colonial hunting horns, and an interactive digital narratives with contemporary economic imperialism. touchscreen. His video works, installations and photographic series highlight how identities are shaped, transformed, The exhibition’s starting point is Sammy Baloji’s perverted and reinvented. His critical view of contem- critical questioning of German ethnologist Hans porary societies is a warning about how cultural clichés continue to shape collective memories and thus allow Himmelheber’s (1908-2003) photographic social and political power games to continue to dictate archives, which include pictures collected in 1939 human behaviour. As he stated in a recent interview : "I’m not inte- during a trip to the Congo, then a Belgian colony. rested in colonialism as nostalgia, or in it as a thing of the These photographs, which are today conserved in past, but in the continuation of that system." Zurich, are considered novel from an ethnogra- Sammy Baloji (b. 1978 in Lubumbashi, DR Congo) lives phic perspective because Himmelheber was inte- and works between Lubumbashi and Brussels. Sammy Baloji received a degree in Information and Commu- rested in the Congolese people as creative indivi- nication Sciences from the University of Lubumbashi duals.. (...) and a degree from the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin. He started in September 2019 his PhD artistic research [Sammy Baloji] opposes a counter-narrative to project "Contemporary Kasala and Lukasa: towards the translocation of artifacts that separates them a Reconfiguration of Identity and Geopolitics" at Sint Lucas Antwerpen. from their use and cultural meaning: invited by A Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, he has received Sammy Baloji, the writer Fiston Mwanza Mujila numerous awards and distinctions, including the Prince Claus Prize, the Spiegel Prize of the African Photography created a Kasala, a Luba poem combining the reci- Encounters of Bamako and the Dakar Biennale, and the tation of elements from the genealogy of a cele- Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. For the year 2019-2020, he is a resident of the Aca- brated person with mythological, cosmological démie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis. Since 2018, he and historical fragments. (...) Going beyond such teaches each summer at the Sommerakademie in Salz- burg. Sammy Baloji co-founded in 2008 the Rencontres de-contextualization which silences objects, the Picha/Biennale de Lubumbashi. Kasala brings in the "missing voices." His recent personal exhibitions include Beaux- Arts de Paris (2020); Sammy Baloji, Other Tales, Lund Painful voices though, as they express the suf- Konsthall and Aarhus Kunsthal (2020); Congo, Frag- ferings of Katanga’s artisanal miners, the bloody ments d’une histoire, Le Point du Jour, Cherbourg (2019); A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes, Framer Framed, Ams- repression of liberation movements, the long list terdam (2018); Sven Augustijnen & Sammy Baloji, Mu- of political murders in the Democratic Republic of seumcultuur Strombeek (2018); Urban Now : City Life in Congo, Sammy Baloji and Filip de Boeck, The Power Plant, the Congo. Toronto and WIELS, Brussels (2016-2017), and Hunting —Lotte Arndt, June 2020, excerpt from the exhi- and Collecting, Mu. ZEE Kunstmuseum aan zee, Ostend (2014). bition's journal. He has recently participated in the Sydney Biennial (2020), documenta 14 (Kassel/Athens, 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/ General Production: Twenty Nine Studio & Production UV Prints on mirrors Design and Production: Orfée Grandhomme and Ismaël Bennani (Überknackig) with Jean-Daniel Bourgeois (KGN) Application development: Etienne Ozeray and Antoine Gelgon (Luuse) PRESS RELEASE 3/5 Imane Farès Imane Sammy Baloji’s News 21 February - 13 September 2020, Palais de Tokyo Our world is burning, exhibition conceived in collaboration with the MATHAF (collective exhbition) Palais de Tokyo, Paris Curators: Abdellah Karroum and Fabien Danesi 30 June - 1st November 2020, Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac « À toi appartient le regard et (…) la liaison infinie entre les choses » (collective exhbition) Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Paris www.imanefares.com + 33 rue41 Mazarine, 75006 Paris Curator: Christine Barthe ( 0 ) 1 46 33 13 13 – [email protected] 10 July - 13 September 2020, French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici Dans le tourbillon du tout-monde (collective exhbition) French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici Curator: Lorenzo Romito 21 August - 1st November 2020, Kunsthal Aarhus Sammy Baloji, Other Tales (personal exhbition) Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus Curator: Matteo Lucchetti 18 September 2020 - 8 January 2021, Mucem Affleurements (collective exhbition) Mucem’s Centre for Conservation and Resources, Marseilles A project by Excavating Contemporary Archaeology 14 October 2020 - 23 January 2021, Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine Kinshasa, la ville vue par ses artistes contemporains (collective exhbition) Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine, Paris Curators: Dominique Malaquais, with Sébastien Godret, Fiona Meadows, Claude Allemand, and Éric Androa Mindre Kolo 20 October 2020 - 17 January 2021, Grand Palais Johari - Brass Bands, a new commission of two monumental sculptures by the Rmn- Grand Palais Grand Palais, escaliers Clemenceau Curator: Chris Dercon 30 November 2020, 19h cinéma Beau Regard, Paris (sur invitation) Premiere of Rumba Rules, New Genealogies (2020), a feature film by David N. Bernatchez, Sammy Baloji and Kiripi Katembo Siku Cinéma Beau Regard, 22 rue Guillaume Apollinaire, Paris 3 December 2020 - 17 January 2021, Beaux-Arts de Paris Personal exhibition (title tbd) Beaux-Arts de Paris, coproduced by Festival d’Automne à Paris Curator: Jean de Loisy PRESS RELEASE 4/5 Imane Farès Imane Visuals for Press www.imanefares.com + 33 rue41 Mazarine, 75006 Paris ( 0 ) 1 46 33 13 13 – [email protected] Hunting horn with Congolese scarifications by the coppersmith Guido Clabots, Dinant, Belgium, displayed in a showcase Copper Horn: 55 x 60 x 25 cm Showcase: 220 x 80 x 80 cm Courtesy of the artist and Imane Farès, Paris Videostill HD video, color, sound, 31:40 min Courtesy of the artist and Imane Farès, Paris Hans Himmelheber, The long building of the circumcision camp can be seen behind the mask, DR Congo, Pende region, 1939, scan of the inside of a Songye power figure, and your reflection in the mirror, 2020 UV Print on mirror 4 mm, American case in polished brushed brass, 204 x 83 cm Courtesy of the artist and Imane Farès, Paris PRESS RELEASE 5/5.
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