Em nenhum campo como o da fotografia o conflito de poder entre sujeito e
objeto, entre fotógrafo e fotografado no caso, é mais evidente. Ambas
as imagens persistentes de África - dois olhares inaugurados no século
XIX: um alimentado pelo estranhamento que constrói imagens de entropia,
de estagnação; outro que induz o exótico, o virgem, o selvagem, o
espetáculo - concordam com a posição que esse espaço geográfico e
cultural ocupa no mapa da modernidade colonial: sem história, o Outro,
como inverso da imagem de nós próprios, Europa, construída no mesmo
movimento. O que Awam Amkpa faz nesta inteligente e bela exposição é
oferecer-nos um novo ambiente imaginário que suscite um discurso mais
racional sobre África, contrariando as diferentes fantasmagorias
habituais. O que é necessário por razões éticas e epistemológicas.
In no other field is the conflict of power between subject and object,
photographer and photographed, more obvious. Both of these persistent
images of Africa - two points of view initiated in the nineteenth
century: one fed by an estrangement that creates images of entropy and
stagnation; and another the exotic, the virgin, the wild, the
extravagant - agree on the geographic and cultural space that they
occupy in the map of modern colonialism: without history, the Other, as
the opposite of the image that we built for ourselves, Europe, is
created in the same movement. What Awam Amkpa does in this clever and
beautiful exhibition is to offer us a new environment of the imagination
that inspires a more rational discourse about Africa, which contradicts
the usual illusions. This is needed for ethical and epistemological
reasons
Sinopse
In no other field is the conflict of power between subject and object, photographer and photographed, more obvious. Both of these persistent images of Africa - two points of view initiated in the nineteenth century: one fed by an estrangement that creates images of entropy and stagnation; and another the exotic, the virgin, the wild, the extravagant - agree on the geographic and cultural space that they occupy in the map of modern colonialism: without history, the Other, as the opposite of the image that we built for ourselves, Europe, is created in the same movement. What Awam Amkpa does in this clever and beautiful exhibition is to offer us a new environment of the imagination that inspires a more rational discourse about Africa, which contradicts the usual illusions. This is needed for ethical and epistemological reasons
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