...Manthia Diawara Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 ARCHITECTURE AS COLONIAL DISCOURSE ANGELA FERREIRA'S MAISONS TROPICALES Angela Ferreira, Maison Tropicale, 2007, installation view (detail), Portuguese...

... contributed to the construction of an invisible humanity. The guided visits sought to restore its presence and affirm the living legacies of the enslaved. Françoise Vergès is Chair Global South(s) at Le Collège d’etudes mondiales, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris, and works...

... section, which should have been lively, remained curi• sometimes frustrating journey through four moderately ously underdeveloped. This is echoed in the exhibition large, visually crowded rooms in the Maison Europeanne leaflet (the catalogue isyet...

...-scale multimedia works such as Voci, Parts of Speech, and Gaijin, works that explore the concept of foreignness. In addition, Pamela's sound installation Just Dust was conceived for the historic Maison des esclaves on Goree Island as a six channel audio installation based on samples of spoken text...

... founding member, Angelo de Riz, taken at the Maison des Artistes in Cairo, where the group was active. Van-Leo was also a close friend of Jacques Ovadia, a well-known member of Art and Liberty, who stated clearly in his article, Surrealism de l Esprit, that Van-Leo was never a believer in surrealism...

... that he visited at least one member of the Egyptian surrealist group, Angelo de Riz. A portrait of de Riz, signed by Van-Leo in 1946, was taken at de Riz s premises, located in a traditional house opposite the headquarters of the surrealist Maison des Artistes on Darb al-Labbana Street, at the Citadel...

.... The translation was satisfactory and candid, but the author s authentic voice was constrained by the translator s attempt to avoid obscene and pornographic words. Later, I searched for his book The House of Certain Death (La maison de la mort certaine) and met with Shafiq Maqar (the writer who lives now in London...

... University, Ithaca, New York (1993); Second Bienal de La Habana, rigor as an artist, asserting his contributions to the Havana, Cuba (1986); Maison de la culture André Malraux, Reims, canon of art history, not only as a transformational France (1978); Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh...

... illustration As she explained, “The slides will be used for lec- of a preeminent lieu de mémoire in African Ameri- tures, to show the students, the faculties, the com- can culture: the “door of (no) return” at the Maison munity and anyone in the United States . . . what des Esclaves at Gorée Island...

... of Contemporary African Art Un film de / a film by Manthia Diawara La Premiere Africaine de Maison Tropicale (2008) aura lieu a la Biennale des Arts de Dakar, au Musee Theodore Monod d'Art Africain (IFAN), du 9 Mai - 9 Juin 2008, avec des presentations journalieres. The African Premiere...