As an event prior to the opening of the exhibition Nobosudru, the becoming icon of a Mangbetu woman. From the visual image to the materiality of the image, commissioners Hasan G. Lopez Sanz, Carine Peltier-Caroff and Nicolás Sánchez Durá, will participate in a colloquium where their conceptual framework will be presented and outlined.
After, you can visit the exhibition, where the future of Nobosudru's photographic image is explored, a mangbetu woman, taken in the northeastern part of the Congo by G. Specht y L. Poirier as those responsible for the photographic and cinematographic shots of the famous Citroën automobile journey, known as The Black Cruise (1924-1925). Directed by G. M. Haardt and L. Audoin-Dubreuil, crossed Africa from Algeria to Cape Town. Coming soon, the profile image of Nobosudru with his characteristic headdress, which was only a status marker but was falsely taken as an ethnic sign of all Mangbetu women, became an icon of Black Africa. The use of that image in the most diverse practices and social contexts, as well as its different material supports, all of them present at the exhibition, It will mean its formal and semantic mutation from the 1920s to the present day..
The exhibition has the collaboration of European museums, mainly from the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum in Paris and private collections.
- 19h Presentation
- 20h Inauguration
