Picnos Tshombé
Gloria Oyarzabal
Witty Kiwi
Spanish and English
Co-published by Landskrona Foto Publishing and Breadfield Press
Hardcover
includes booklet of 32 pages
142 pages
170 x 240 mm
2018
ISBN 9788894188271
A project that looks out of a window into history to understand the consequences of the events of decades ago on the contemporary world. The story begins in the 1960s, when the processes of decolonization of the African continent took place, with the mysterious disappearance of a key man in the history of the Congo and brings us to the current phenomenon of African immigration. The set of images, documents and texts establish threads and metaphors that connect the present with the recent past and make us reflect on the unequal and complex relationship established between Europe and Africa, rather, between Europeans and Africans.
Picnolepsy is a term used by Paul Virilio in The Aesthetics of Disappearance that can be defined as an absence crisis, a petit-mal, brief episodes of altered consciousness… The time of our existence passes in moments that flow linearly without interruption, but the small evil produces cuts and the subject is subtracted from this continuity.
Moisé Tshombé was the secessionist leader of Katanga, a region of Congo immensely rich in cobalt, uranium, gold, diamonds, copper and tin. Accused of the cruel murder of Patrice Lumumba (the democratically elected anti-colonialist leader of the Congo), he went into exile in 1963 in Franco’s Spain where, four years later, he was kidnapped in an international plot still to be resolved and ended his days in 1969 after two years of internment in a military camp in Algeria.
(source: https://witty-books.com/Picnos-Tshombe-Gloria-Oyarzabal)
About the Artist
Graduate in Fine Arts, she diversifies her activit between film, photography and teaching. Co-founder and programmer at the independent cinema “La Enana Marrón” in Madrid (1999-2009), dedicated to the diffusion of author, experimental and alternative cinema.Lived 3 years in Bamako, Mali (2009-2012) researching on the construction of the Idea of Africa, processes of colonization/decolonization , new tactics of colonialism and the diversity around the different voices of the African Feminisms.
gloriaoyarzabal.com
(source: https://gloriaoyarzabal.com/BIO)
About the Publisher
Witty Kiwi is an independent publishing house founded in 2012 with the intention to promote contemporary photography, through photobooks. Witty Kiwi focuses on a personal photography with particular attention to poetry and metaphysics aspects.
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