© Silvano Magnone
Visiting hours:
Friday, 2.06, 18:00-21:00 (vernissage)
Wednesday, 7.06, 15:00-17:00
Saturday, 10.06, 15:00-17:00; public talk/discussion 17:00-20:00
Wednesday, 14.06, 15:00-17:00
Friday, 16.06, 18:00-21:00 (finissage)
>> Free entrance, for the public talk/discussion on the 10th you need to register via this link.
New Hero·in·es is an exhibition in progress organized by the Brussels-based Troubled Archives collective, as part of their ongoing research on colonial photography.
Since 2016, the members of Troubled Archives have been working with colonial photographic archives. Drawing from speculative historiography and social healing, Troubled Archives calls on activist, participatory, and process-oriented methods in which opening up a dialogue with diverse communities plays an important role.
Troubled Archives started the process of working on the exhibition at the studio of photographer Silvano Magnone, experimenting with the 19th-century collodion photography technique. They reclaimed this medium used in colonial times to photograph each other and fellow activists. During the exhibition at Moussem, the pictures of members of the collective will be combined with 19th-century colonial photographic archival images. Translated into 16mm film, they leave an imprint on cyanotype-induced plates. The distinction between the images – the ones of the colonized and those of the activists – is deliberately kept blurry. But whereas today's activists can talk for themselves, the people from the 19th century have forcibly stayed mute and nameless.
Troubled Archives invites the public to embark on a journey to the past in the company of the person in the archival image. You will be invited to actively take part in the project by contributing to the sound recording that accompanies the images.
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The story of Troubled Archives collective began with a series of debates in Brussels on their artwork on archival photography - initiated by Antje Van Wichelen and Rokia Bamba. Next to Antje and Rokia, members include Loes Jacobs, Peggy Pierrot and Brenda Bikoko.
Troubled Archives
and supported by:
Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre
nadine – laboratory for contemporary art
BNA-BBOT
LABO BxL
Café Congo
Studio Silvano Magnone
Visiting hours:
Friday, 2.06, 18:00-21:00 (vernissage)
Wednesday, 7.06, 15:00-17:00
Saturday, 10.06, 15:00-17:00; public talk/discussion 17:00-20:00
Wednesday, 14.06, 15:00-17:00
Friday, 16.06, 18:00-21:00 (finissage)
>> Free entrance, for the public talk/discussion on the 10th you need to register via this link.
New Hero·in·es is an exhibition in progress organized by the Brussels-based Troubled Archives collective, as part of their ongoing research on colonial photography.
Since 2016, the members of Troubled Archives have been working with colonial photographic archives. Drawing from speculative historiography and social healing, Troubled Archives calls on activist, participatory, and process-oriented methods in which opening up a dialogue with diverse communities plays an important role.
Troubled Archives started the process of working on the exhibition at the studio of photographer Silvano Magnone, experimenting with the 19th-century collodion photography technique. They reclaimed this medium used in colonial times to photograph each other and fellow activists. During the exhibition at Moussem, the pictures of members of the collective will be combined with 19th-century colonial photographic archival images. Translated into 16mm film, they leave an imprint on cyanotype-induced plates. The distinction between the images – the ones of the colonized and those of the activists – is deliberately kept blurry. But whereas today's activists can talk for themselves, the people from the 19th century have forcibly stayed mute and nameless.
Troubled Archives invites the public to embark on a journey to the past in the company of the person in the archival image. You will be invited to actively take part in the project by contributing to the sound recording that accompanies the images.
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The story of Troubled Archives collective began with a series of debates in Brussels on their artwork on archival photography - initiated by Antje Van Wichelen and Rokia Bamba. Next to Antje and Rokia, members include Loes Jacobs, Peggy Pierrot and Brenda Bikoko.
