WHERE WE’RE AT! Other voices on gender was an exhibition of the Summer of Photography 2014 themed ‘Gender’, held at Bozar, Brussels, from 18 June – 31 August 2014.
The artists and photographers featured were: Hélène Amouzou (Togo/Belgium), Rehema Chachage (Tanzania), Angèle Étoundi Essamba (Cameroon/Netherlands), Cecilia Ferreira (South Africa), Lisa Hilli (Papua New Guinea/Australia), Hélène Jayet (Mali/France), Katia Kameli (Algeria/France), Majida Khattari (Morocco/France), Shigeyuki Kihara (Samoa/New Zealand), Michèle Magema (DRC/France), Ato Malinda (Kenya), Zanele Muholi (South Africa), Maud Sulter (Ghana/Scotland), Alberta Whittle (Barbados/South Africa) and Mwangi Hutter (Kenya/Germany).
Curated by Christine Eyene, this exhibition brought together more than 80 works comprising photographs and videos, as well as archival material from the Making Histories Visible project, dealing with the body, gender and sexuality, spanning from the 1980s up to our time. The show also premiered Mwangi Hutter’s large-scale three-screen video installation Turquoise Realm (2014). The works selected gave an insight of visual responses to gendered experiences as diverse as the artists individual concerns, practices and the geographical contexts from which they emerge, be it Africa, the Caribbean, Pacific Islands or today’s recomposed Diasporas.
Broaching historical, socio-political and cultural contexts, WHERE WE’RE AT! Other voices on gender addressed the stereotypification of the non-western body in mainstream visual culture and sought to bring in a culturally diverse approach to female-oriented, feminist, and queer aesthetics. This project was also an invitation for the viewers to share the artists’ visual narratives – from the very intimate, to overt forms of discontent – and reflect on how one’s own body and experience filter through the gaze, and influence one’s perception of a diversity of genders.
The trilingual catalogue (English, French, Dutch) edited by Christine Eyene, with a foreword by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women Executive Director, is published by SILVANA EDITORIALE and BOZAR BOOKS.
This exhibition was co-produced by BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts and The Royal Museum for Central Africa in partnership with the University of Central Lancashire.
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Agenda magazine featuring work by Zanele Muholi
Hall Horta, BOZAR, Brussels
‘Meet the Artists’ event introduced by Kathleen Louw, Project Manager Africa, BOZAR, and Isabelle Van Loo, Education & Culture, Royal Museum for Central Africa
Kathleen Louw and Chantal Eboko, Union des Femmes Africaines, Belgique
Toma Luntumbe Muteba and Michèle Magema
Alberta Whittle
Cecilia Ferreira
Lisa Hilli and Shigeyuki Kihara
Visitor reading WHERE WE’RE AT! introductory text. © Yves Gervais, BOZAR.
Exhibition entrance with Lisa Hilli’s video Afrophobia (2007) © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
Cecilia Ferreira, Place of blood (2011), video
Work by Angele Etoundi Essamba. © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
Work by Angele Etoundi Essamba. © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
Works by Angele Etoundi Essamba
Work by Zanele Muholi. © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
Work by Zanele Muholi
Zanele Muholi, Caitlin and I (2009). Courtesy the artist and Stevenson
Hélène Jayet’s series Colored Only (2010 – ongoing)
Left: slideshow of Hélène Jayet’s series Colored Only (2010 – ongoing). Right: Lisa Hilli’s video Afrophobia (2007)
Lisa Hilli, Afrophobia (2007), video
Shigeyuki Kihara, Siva in Motion (2012). Video commissioned by the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand
Alberta Whittle, poster series
Alberta Whittle, Big Red (2012)
Work by Hélène Amouzou
Work by Hélène Amouzou
Katia Kameli, Nouba (2000), video
Majida Khattari, Ninfa Moderna (2009-2010)
Majida Khattari, Ninfa Moderna (2009-2010)
Majida Khattari, Les Parisiennes (2008-2009)
Archives from MAKING HISTORIES VISIBLE project UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE. © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
Posters of exhibition by pioneering Black women photographers, held in the UK in the 1980s
Archive and quote by artist Marleen Smith
Selected pieces of archive
Selected pieces of archive
Lubaina Himid in Susan Walsh’s showreel Images and Conversations from the 1980s (2011)
Still from Susan Walsh’s showreel Images and Conversations from the 1980s (2011)
Still from Susan Walsh’s showreel Images and Conversations from the 1980s (2011)
Sonia Boyce in Susan Walsh’s showreel Images and Conversations from the 1980s (2011)
Sutapa Biswas in Susan Walsh’s showreel Images and Conversations from the 1980s (2011). © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
Maud Sulter, Plantation (1995)
Maud Sulter, Plantation (1995) detail
Maud Sulter, Plantation (1995) detail
Maud Sulter, Plantation (1995) detail
Maud Sulter, Plantation (1995) detail
Maud Sulter, Plantation (1995) detail
Mwangi Hutter, Mad Woman (2009)
Mwangi Hutter, Mad Woman (2009), video
Cecilia Ferreira, The Chaos Within (2009), video
Cecilia Ferreira, Place of Blood, 2011
Ato Malinda, Prison Sex I (2008), video
Exhibition view with work by Rehema Chachage and Michele Magema © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
Rehema Chachage, Kwa Baba Rithi Undugu (2009), wood and video
Rehema Chachage, Orupa Mchikirwa/Mshanga (2012) detail
Michèle Magema, Good Bye Rosa – 2005 (2006)
Rehema Chachage, Orupa Mchikirwa/Mshanga (2012) detail
Michèle Magema, Good Bye Rosa – 2005 (2006)
Michèle Magema, Good Bye Rosa – 2005 (2006)
Michèle Magema, Elément (2005), video
Katia Kameli, Untitled (2011), video
Mwangi Hutter, Turquoise Realm (2014), 3-channel video
Mwangi Hutter, Turquoise Realm (2014), 3-channel video
Michèle Magema, Katia Kameli, Angèle Etoundi Essamba
Lisa Hilli and Ana Casas Broda
Cecilia Ferreira and Kathleen Louw
Kathleen Louw and Shigeyuki Kihara
Inauguration of Summer of Photography, 17 June 2014. © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
Right Sophie Lauwers, Head of Exhibitions, BOZAR, and Christoph de Jaeger, Summer of Photography coordinator and photography curator, BOZAR, interviewd by Chris Burns. © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
Exhibition introduction by Christine Eyene. Image: Pelagie Gbaguidi
A crowded BOZAR with Angèle Etoundi Essamba in the foreground. © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
Chandelier performance by Steven Cohen. © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
Chandelier performance by Steven Cohen. © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
Chandelier performance by Steven Cohen. © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
Chandelier performance by Steven Cohen. © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
Remaining glasses on reading table. In the background, work by Ana Casas Broda. © Yves Gervais, BOZAR
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