Posts Tagged ‘Maryam Jafri’

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Sammy Baloji. Essay on Urban Planning, 2013 (installation view). Twelve colour photographs, each 80 x 120 cm 320 x 360 cm Courtesy the artist and Galerie Imane Farès, Paris © Sammy Baloji © Photo: Alessandra Bello. Belgian Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale.

#imperialism #appropriation #representation #environment #postcolonialism #revolution Throughout the 56th Venice Biennale, one finds national pavilions that have taken up the postcolonial mantle of Okwui Enwezor’s central exhibition within the contours of their own relationships to imperialist histories. Among the most successful of these are Vincent Meessen’s Belgian pavilion, Personne et les Autres, and Fiona Hall’s Australian pavilion, Wrong Way Time. Both pavilions consider how the[…..]