“Fertile Ground: Can an Artists’ Collective in Africa Repair a Colonial Legacy?” Alice Gregory ’09 Writes about How a Congolese Art Project Envisions a Post-Plantation Economy, for the New Yorker

Writer Alice Gregory ’09 reports for the New Yorker on the work of Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC), an art project and artists’ collective with a recently commissioned art museum called the White Cube built in the former palm oil plantation of Lusanga. Gregory probes the possibilities of the project as well as the problematic role Dutch artist Renzo Martens, who originally devised its creation, plays in its development. CATPC founding member Cedart Tamasala says, “If a museum can create a whole economy around it in London or in New York City, then it could do the same thing on the plantation. The goal is to change this reality that has been imposed on us for decades—on us, on our parents, and on our grandparents.”

Post Date: 08-02-2022