These images—mostly made on commission and for the souvenir market—helped shape the perception of Suriname as a prosperous colony but also bear traces of what was typically left out of the frame.
Thulile Gamedze
Gamedze, who creates garments under the brand For the Afterlife, confirms that this is a lifetime project, one that she believes will continue to evolve through the sharing of the garments and journaling, just as a book is passed down and shared.
Keke Nkadimeng on the work of Thulile Gamedze
Installation view
Ressurgir
Artistic practices emerge as a place of agency, a place to intervene asymmetries, to reappropriate our own corporeality’s, to decolonize identity constructions and to discover emancipated and committed aesthetics.
Elizabeth Pozo Rubio on a group show of emerging female artists
Lucia Nankoe: Trouwportretten
De foto’s zijn daarom niet alleen van betekenis voor degenen die hierin een deel van hun familiegeschiedenis vereeuwigd zien, maar belichamen ook een gedeelde (inter)nationale geschiedenis.
Ten Meer: de Rooy
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