"Distance and Desire": "Encounters With the African Archive" (Part II: Contemporary Reconfigurations)

The Walther Collection Project Space, Through March 9, 2013
  • Distance and Desire: Encounters With the African [...]
Genre : Projets culturels
Pays principal concerné : Rubrique : Photo
Mois de Sortie : Avril 2013
Publié le : 04/02/2013
Source : New York Times

Africa is an unstinting source of new photography, of which New York would see little on a regular basis were it not for a few commercial galleries and the Walther Collection. Last fall the Walther, a German foundation with a project space in Chelsea, initiated a series of three exhibitions under the umbrella title "Distance and Desire: Encounters With the African Archive," organized by the art historian Tamar Garb. The first show included European ethnographic photography. This one, "Contemporary Reconfigurations," sets out to illustrate how much a product of invention and fantasy ethnography can be (...)

[Lire la suite de l'article de Holland Cotter publié dans le New York Times]

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  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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