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Library, sports club, Kolwezi, DR Congo

Library, sports club, Kolwezi, DR Congo

© 2007 Guy Tillim

Library, sports club, Kolwezi, DR Congo
Library, sports club, Kolwezi, DR Congo
ArtistSouth African, born 1962
CultureSouth African
Titles
  • Library, sports club, Kolwezi, DR Congo
  • from the series Avenue Patrice Lumumba
Date2007
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsAt opening: 17 × 25 11/16 in. (43.2 × 65.2 cm)
 Frame: 25 5/8 × 34 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (65.1 × 88 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of John A. MacMahon
Object number2018.455
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description“Patrice Lumumba’s dream, his nationalism, is discernable in these structures…as is the death of his dream,” wrote Guy Tillim. Lumumba became the Democratic Republic of Congo’s first freely elected prime minister in 1960, but less than one year later, he was deposed by army chief Mobutu Sese Seko and assassinated. For Tillim, Lumumba represents an idealistic nationalism that burned bright but was quickly extinguished. He notes, “In the fragility of this strange and beautiful hybrid landscape struggling to contain the calamities of the past 50 years, there is an indisputably African identity. This is my embrace of it.”
ProvenanceJohn A. MacMahon; given to MFAH, 2018.
Exhibition History"Through an African Lens: Sub-Saharan Photography from the Museum's Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 27–November 8, 2020.

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