Maison Tropicale : La Biennale di Venezia 2007, Portuguese Pavilion
ed. by Jürgen Bock : bys Manthia Diawara, Andrew Renton, Gertrud Sandqvist
- Author(s)
- Manthia Diawara, Andrew Renton, Gertrud Sandqvist
- Editor(s)
- Jürgen Bock
- Publication, year
- Lisboa Instituto des Artes : Ministério da Cultura, 2007
- Scope
- 104 Pages, illustrated, 27 cm.
- ISBN
- 9789729932281
Ângela Ferreiras Maison Tropicale reflects on colonial history and its contemporary, post- and neo-colonial resonances. The French Overseas Ministry, through collaboration with the French designer Jean Prouvé, saw the possibility to develop modernist ideas of conceiving a series of aesthetically sophisticated homes, that could be mass-produced and that would give people greater access to well-designed, high quality architecture based on prefabricated aluminium modules. The installation at the Portuguese Pavilion in Venice presents us with the displacement of these houses, not located in France, Niger or the Congo, transforming them into containers of history, in transit between the worlds of the colonisers and the colonised, the de-colonised and post-modern worlds with their realities of post- and/or neo-colonialism.
- Person as subject
- Angela Ferreira
- Location
- Cabinet 3 - 1: Kunstenaars
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