On Thursday, May 28th, at 18:30 we welcomed Sandrine Colard for a conversation with artist Euridice Zaituna Kala. Building on the exhibition Daylighting: maar het is het water dat spreekt/mais c'est l'eau qui parle, to dive into the exhibition and their long standing practice working with archives, african diaspora and photography.

Biography

Sandrine Colard is a curator at the Kanal-Pompidou Museum in Brussels, and an Associate Professor of Art History at Rutgers-Newark University. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University (2016), and is a historian of African, modern and contemporary arts, as well as a historian of photography. Her recent exhibitions include Recaptioning Congo: New perspectives on the photographic history of colonial Congo (FOMU, Belgium, 2022-2023); Congoville (Middelheim Museum, Belgium, 2020); Multiple Transmissions: Art in the Afropolitan Age (Wiels, Belgium, 2019); The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture. Photographs from The Walther Collection (The Image Center, Canada, 2019). She was also the curator of the 6th Biennale de Lubumbashi, Future Genealogies: Tales from the Equatorial Line (Lubumbashi, DRC, 2019).

Her research has been published internationally and supported by grants from the Musée du Quai Branly, the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, the Ford Foundation and by the Getty/ACLS for her book on the history of photography in the colonial Congo (Duke University, upcoming).

Sandrine Colard is an international lecturer (MoMA, EHESS, McGill University, Sorbonne, Tate Modern, European Parliament, UCLA, Brooklyn Museum, etc) and the author of multiple publications (African Arts, Critical Interventions, Cahiers du CAP, The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History, Cultures et Musées, Hyperallergic, , etc).

Practical information

Doors open 18:00
Language: English
Free access, reservation info@la-loge.be

Image: Julien De Bock