Flamboya includes over fifty recent photographs taken across Africaâfrom Cape Town to Kenya to Zambiaâthat disregard traditional boundaries of genres and tackle the problematic bond between photography, imperialism, and the colonial imagination. Viviane Sassenâs aesthetic vocabulary suggestively recalls documentary as much as staged photography and relies on a visual economy that invites the formulation of multiple interpretations. Seen through Sassenâs lens, the ethnic Other interrogates the traditional nexus laid between vision, knowledge, and power, which lies at the heart of the history and ideology of photography.
About: Flamboya includes over fifty recent photographs taken across Africaâfrom Cape Town to Kenya to Zambiaâthat disregard traditional boundaries of genres and tackle the problematic bond between photography, imperialism, and the colonial imagination.
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