012-USUS-FRUCTUS-ABUSUS-XII

USUS FRUCTUS ABUSUS_La Blanche et la Noire XII (SHAKING SENSITIVE HERITAGE). Photograph printed on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag 308 gr. paper with pigmented inks. Diptych, 210x155 (105 x 155 cm e/o). 2022. Left: Detail from a picture titled ‘Oba Akenzua II greets Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on a royal visit’ taken by Nigerian photographer Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge in 1956. © Chief S.O. Alonge Collection. Right: Stuffed animals, as part of the machinery that creates an exoticising imaginary, also enter into the decolonial discourses of the museum. Museum of Africa (Tervuren, Belgium).

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