This work had two starting points that intersected and formed the final work. The first one was the textbook "Histoire de Belgique", from 1947, bought at the Jeu de Balle, most famous flea market of Brussels, from which I extracted specific excerpts and printed on 26 sheets of paper. The text comes from the book’s chapter on Belgian colonization of the Congo and King Leopold II’s life.
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The second were the images presented alongside the text, essentially consisting of digitally manipulated archive photography printed on paper from old photo albums also found at the same flea market. The images which document the territory known in the early 20th century as Congo Free State, now DRC.
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The photographs in this piece, like memories, they are increasingly weak, faded and disappearing, in different degrees of oblivion. The paper onto which they were printed, the kind of which is used to protect photographs on old family albums, is thin and delicate, but also aged, twisted, folded, almost disintegrating at the mere breeze created by the walking public.
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