Book Launch: Multiple Gazes of a Country’s Photographed Past

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Featuring artworks of: Adalberto Abbate, Amalia Ramanankirahina, Anne Gregory, Caecilia Tripp, Carolle Benitah, Cécile Hummel, Diogo Bento, Dunja Herzog, Elsa M’bala, Erika Nimis, Fabien Lapouge, Frida Robles, Gisele Frøysland, Gregorio Mendez, Hillie de Rooij, Justine Gaga, Maite Cajaraville, Mustafa Saeed, Pascale Obolo, Raquel Bravo Iglesias, Ray Piwi Ochieng, Rosario Mazuela, Spring Ulmer, Thaís Medina, Vincent Bezuidenhout, Xavier Aguirre Palacios, Zara Julius and Sarah Dauphiné Tchouatcha 

Curated by Rosario Mazuela, Texts by Jürg Schneider, Published by African Photography Initiatives

On Friday 4, 2018 at 7 pm the book “Multiple Gazes of a Country’s Photographed Past” will be launched at Photobastei in Zürich. The event will be framed by a guided tour of the exhibition. The first seven buyers receive a copy of a work (30x30 cm) from the publication.

Four artist featuring in the book will be screened in Video interviews: Vincent_Bezuidenhout (South Africa); Amalia Ramanankirahina (Madagascar/France); Thais Medina (Brasil) and Elsa M’bala (Cameroon).

“Multiple Gazes of a Country’s Photographed Past” is the result of 3 years’ work with 27 visual artists from 17 countries. Following the original square format of the Yashica cameras, the book, 21 x 21 cm in format, contains 124 pages and 89 images which are reinterpretations and explorations of a sample of historical photographs from the Buea Press Photo Archives (Cameroon).

The works presented in Multiple Gazes of a Country’s Photographed Past are based on the photo material kept in the Press Photo Archives Buea, Cameroon, and emerge from an online call to use historical photographs as a starting point for artistic interventions. 27 artists from 17 countries have accepted the invitation and submitted their artistic reinterpretations and exploration of a small sample of photographs from the Archives. The results of their dealing with historical material, the confrontation of document and art work, the merger of past and present, reveal the great, at times disturbing potential of artistic engagements with archive material. Multiple Gazes it's the second phase of the project Reinterpreting Historical Photographs.

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