Maud Sulter and Mario Carvo Neto are the artists shown in Rivington Place. A place which I didn’t know before and specializes in contemporary visual arts and promotes and displays global diversity with a very interesting library specialized in feminism and racial issues.
Maud Sutler’s exhibition Syrcas consisted of photomontages and a poem created during early 1990s. The postcards, portraits of white people and Alpine landscapes, contrasted by images of African culture such as sculptures , masks are placed in the middle of the collage, blending or maybe a better expression would be juxtaposing, two cultures, African and European into one collage , it did seem raw , maybe because of it’s reality and what she wanted to express, these were complemented with an additional poem Blood money (1994) which narrated a history of a black woman in Germany during the holocaust. The display gave to me a the work was close to a documentary, where she showed those pieces as final outcomes and statements in a very subtle way mixing them with French titles for each of these, maybe as one of the imperial languages in Cameroon. The photomontages remembered the genocide of black people during Nazi period as well as the lack of their representation in the histories of art and photography. These themes had a personal/ political view as herself was a Scottish-Ghanaian descent.
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