Category: Colonialism
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Dialogues on Memory: M’Barek Bouhchichi and Pascal Blanchard on French Colonialism, Forgotten Figures, and Black Moroccan Portraiture
At the closing of the exhibition BODY OF MEMORY at Dagoma-Harty Gallery, artist M’Barek Bouhchichi and historian Pascal Blanchard engaged in a conversation on French colonialism and Black Moroccan portraiture, focusing on questions of visibility and memory.
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Thao Nguyen Phan: “The Sun Falls Silently”
“History is written by the winners and when the North won the war in 1975, they rewrote history,” says Thao Nguyen Phan. In “The Sun Falls Silently”, she transforms this trauma into paintings, light sculptures, projections, and films that gesture toward a more hopeful future.
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Reflections on Brotherly Love and the Intimacies of Men in David Chariandy’s ‘Brother’
A short reflection based on Michael Bucknor’s essay ‘That Body Always Just a Skin Away’: Brotherly Love and the Intimacies of Men in David Chariandy’s ‘Brother’.