Colonial Exhibition
Colonial Exhibition is a project of conservation and restoration, a re-presentation and recontextualization of an existing photographic artifact: an anonymous, undated pornographic sheet of 25 miniscule photographs depicting an African native in sexual congress with a white woman.
In this alternative colonial interface, the two parties absent from the traditional colonial schema of sexual domination - the indigenous male and the white female - are the protagonists of an inverted mise-en-scène. Each image is labelled with a title indicating a raw material extracted by the colonizers from the colonized lands.
