- Title
- Art topples monuments: artistic practice and colonial/postcolonial relations in the public space of Luanda
- Creator
- Siegert, Nadine
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147014
- Identifier
- vital:38585
- Description
- Even though there have been very few modern and contemporary artworks in the urban space of Luanda in the years after independence in 1975—and especially after the end of the civil war in 2002—there are two works by Angolan artists that are of particular interest: the sculpture Mitologias II (1984) by António Ole (b. 1951) and the photographic series Redefining the Power (2011) by Kiluanji Kia Henda (b. 1978). Both works address the possibility of using contemporary art as a symbolic form of the replacement of power, since both are built on pedestals that had previously supported monuments of Portuguese colonial power. They might, therefore, be read as a form of substitution for monuments that would commemorate and celebrate independence or the end of colonialism. This article also discusses whether these two artworks can also be regarded as counter-monuments and this contributes to the discourse on the visual and material culture of Lusophone Africa.
- Format
- 24 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies
- Relation
- Siegert, N., 2017. Art Topples Monuments: Artistic Practice and Colonial/Postcolonial Relations in the Public Space of Luanda. Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, pp.150-173.
- Relation
- Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies volume number 150 173 2018
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