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Installation view, Austin Martin White, 'Last Dance', Capitain Petzel, 2022
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In The Rubber Coils. Scene - The Congo ‚Free‘ State, Linley Sambourne depicts King Leopold II of Belgium as a snake entangling a congolese rubber collector / published in 1906
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Austin Martin White
In the rubber coils, 2020
Burlap, rubber, pigment, vinyl and screen mesh
109 x 68.5 cm
42.9 x 27 inches
42.9 x 27 inches
B-AMWHITE-.22-0007
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For White, colonial image production is entangled with a contemporary collective memory as well as the reproduction of racist power dynamics. This play of references permeating throughout White’s artistic practice...
For White, colonial image production is entangled with a contemporary collective memory as well as the reproduction of racist power dynamics. This play of references permeating throughout White’s artistic practice operates like active traces that continuously recur in the past and influence the present. Jacques Derrida termed this phenomenon hauntology in 1993. Through the concept of hauntology, the colonial past can be imagined as a ghost, a spectre, that haunts history, and can thus help perceive the persistence of today’s coloniality. For White, this concept holds the key to his archival research and its later decolonial and deconstructive undoing.
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