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Alain Snyers - Microgestes
2022
French edition
Vroum - Editions
Artist's book. Alain Snyers' Microgestes (Microgestures) are invitations to action, they can be practiced or read aloud. They form a set of 45 detailed instructions for all sorts of situations: becoming a cow painter, instructing a meringue, capturing a draft, forgetting tomatoes in the subway or opening a can of tuna with a pickaxe...
Georges Senga - How A Little Pagan Hunter Becomes A Catholic Priest
2022
English edition
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
Artist-photographer Georges Senga investigates into the figure of Bonaventure Salumu, so-called "pagan hunter", who between the 1940s and 60s received a Christian education from missionaries in Congo, following which he was ordained to priesthood as a Jesuit, moved to Europe, eventually returning to his native village where he became a husband and father.
Georges Senga - Comment un petit chasseur païen devient Prêtre Catholique
2022
French edition
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
Artist-photographer Georges Senga investigates into the figure of Bonaventure Salumu, so-called "pagan hunter", who between the 1940s and 60s received a Christian education from missionaries in Congo, following which he was ordained to priesthood as a Jesuit, moved to Europe, eventually returning to his native village where he became a husband and father.
Inter - Performance et art actuel en Afrique – Le cas du Cameroun, de la RDC et de la Tunisie
2022
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Contemporary art and performative practices in Africa.
Sammy Baloji - Ce qui fut et ce qui sera
2020
French edition
various
currently out of stock
This collective book devoted to the work of Sammy Baloji explores how the artist, born in the DRC in 1978, attempts to “restore defeated connections”. How to think about the memory sifted through colonial violence? What effects does the mining of yesterday and today in Katanga and elsewhere have on the project of a common future? How does form make history beyond erasure?
Sandra Mujinga - SONW - Shadow of New Worlds
2020
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book / catalogue
Critique in Practice - Renzo Martens\' “Episode III: Enjoy Poverty”
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This publication explores the legacy of Renzo Martens' landmark film Enjoy Poverty: a provocative work establishing how poverty became Congo's most lucrative export.
Cécile Fromont - L\'Art de la conversion - Culture visuelle chrétienne dans le royaume du Kongo
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An an extensive analysis of the advent of Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo and its and development across four centuries.
CATPC - Congolese Plantation Workers Art League
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This book offers a first report on the activities of the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League (CATPC), an association for the development of an independent thought on postcolonial power relations within the global art world.
Elisabetta Benassi - King Leopold Soliloquy
2015
English edition
Nero
This artist's book by Elisabetta Benassi is a faithful reproduction of an original pamphlet by Mark Twain.
Carsten Höller - “Fara Fara” - A Film Not Made
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A photographic account of Carsten Höller's journeys to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the purpose of a film about Fara Fara music.
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