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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa

9th Edi­tion of the Ba­mako Pho­tog­ra­phy En­coun­ters

cu­ra­tors Michket Krifa and Laura Serani

It is the ex­hi­bi­tion of the 9th edi­tion of the Ba­mako Pho­tog­ra­phy En­coun­ters that is pre­sented here. The theme pro­posed to the pho­tog­ra­phers was “For a sus­tain­able world”. In a con­ti­nent where, in many countries, they are still far from reach­ing the min­i­mum lev­els set by the Ky­oto Agree­ment, choos­ing a theme of this na­ture, with all the im­pli­ca­tions that it has in terms of en­vi­ron­men­tal pol­icy, eco­nomic de­ci­sions, en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion, and agri­cul­tural, fish­ing and in­dus­trial reg­u­la­tions, is, to say the very least, a rev­o­lu­tion­ary pro­posal. And this was how the scores of pho­tog­ra­phers that took part in this ex­hi­bi­tion with hun­dreds of pho­tographs and videos, of­fered vis­i­tors the chance to see the state of the world, where, to quote the cu­ra­tors, “be­ing on Earth and liv­ing to­gether” re­main ob­vi­ous notions that im­me­di­ately call for dras­tic so­lu­tions.

MICHKET KRIFA (Tunisia, 1960)
Artis­tic co-di­rec­tor of the 8th and 9th Ba­mako En­coun­ters, lives and works in Paris. An in­de­pen­dent vi­sual-arts cu­ra­tor in the Mid­dle East and Africa, her sen­si­tiv­ity led her on sev­eral oc­ca­sions to or­ga­nize themed ex­hi­bi­tions on Iran, Tunisia and Al­ge­ria, in­clud­ing many ex­hi­bi­tions on rep­re­sen­ta­tion and women is­sues. Michket Krifa has also been re­spon­si­ble for col­lec­tive and mono­graphic ex­hi­bi­tions, in par­tic­u­lar fea­tur­ing the works of Youssef Nabil, Zineb Sedira, Ab­bas, Jel­lel Gastelli, Jananne Al Ani and Shadi Ghadirian. She is the au­thor of sev­eral ar­ti­cles, es­says and works on pho­tog­ra­phy and the vi­sual arts; she col­lab­o­rates with many well-known in­sti­tu­tions and events in Eu­rope and around the World. Michket Krifa is the ed­i­to­r­ial and artis­tic di­rec­tor of books on pho­tog­ra­phy.

LAURA SERANI (Italy, 1955)
Ital­ian artis­tic co-di­rec­tor of the 8th and 9th Ba­mako En­coun­ters, lives in Paris. An in­ter­na­tional ex­hibit, au­dio­vi­sual and ed­i­to­r­ial-writ­ing pro­jects cu­ra­tor with a ca­reer filled with col­lab­o­ra­tions (Ar­les En­coun­ters, Pho­toEspaña, the Moscow Bi­en­nial, Mai­son Eu­ropéenne de la Pho­togra­phie), Laura Serani was the artis­tic del­e­gate of Photo Month in Paris in 2008, and di­rec­tor of the SiFest in Italy in 2007 and 2008. Be­tween 1985 and 2006, she was Head of the Pho­tog­ra­phy Col­lec­tion of Fnac and Fnac Photo Gal­leries in France and in­ter­na­tion­ally. She works with sev­eral pub­lish­ing houses and writes nu­mer­ous pub­li­ca­tions along with “La pho­togra­phie en­tre his­toire et poésie”, “Is­tan­bul”, d’Ara Güler, “La vie en rose”, de Mal­ick Sidibé.

Main build­ing - tem­po­rary ex­hi­bi­tions gallery, Floor 00

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Present Tense
Photos from the South of Africa

cu­ra­tor António Pinto Ribeiro

An ex­hi­bi­tion with pho­tog­ra­phers from South­ern Africa. Look­ing at the past, the pho­tographs do not de­rive from a “con­stel­la­tion of eth­nic groups or tribes”, to men­tion the the­sis pro­posed by Elikia M’Bokolo, and this is an es­sen­tial premise in the cu­ra­tor­ship of this ex­hi­bi­tion en­ti­tled “Pre­sent Tense”. We are quite far re­moved from the pho­tographs taken of black peo­ple who “of­fi­cially […] were fre­quently de­picted in the same vi­sual lan­guage as the flora and fauna”, to quote Santu Mo­fo­keng in “The Black Al­bum Photo”. We are in­ter­ested in show­ing and com­par­ing the work of pho­tog­ra­phers who live or travel through a se­ries of cities sit­u­ated mainly in the South­ern Africa re­gion with­out there be­ing any­thing to in­di­cate any vi­sual or cul­tural iden­tity for the re­gion.
Re­gard­less of the gen­res – por­trait, land­scape, doc­u­ment, pho­to­jour­nal­ism – these are pho­tographs about the “Pre­sent Tense” that we want to show, and this con­cept of the “Pre­sent Tense” also in­cludes the ten­sion be­tween lan­guages, the choice of colour or black and white and the de­tail di­verg­ing from the panoramic view. With pho­tographs by the pho­tog­ra­phers Délio Jasse, Dil­lon Marsh, Fil­ipe Bran­quinho, Guy Tillim, Jo Ractliffe, Kilu­anji Kia Henda, Mack Ma­g­a­gane, Malala An­dri­alavidrazana, Mauro Pinto, Paul Samuels, Pieter Hugo, Sabelo Mlan­geni, Sammy Baloji and Tsvan­gi­rayi Muk­wazhi.

António Pinto Ribeiro was born in Lis­bon in 1956. He grad­u­ated in Phi­los­o­phy at the Lis­bon Clas­sic Uni­ver­sity (1981) and got a Mas­ter de­gree in Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Sci­ences at the Lis­bon Uni­ver­si­dade Nova (1995). He is a lec­turer-pro­fes­sor at sev­eral uni­ver­si­ties. In par­al­lel he col­lab­o­rates reg­u­larly with mag­a­zines that spe­cial­ize in Aes­thet­ics, The­o­ries of Arts and Cul­tures and Cul­tural pro­gram­ming. He was Cul­turgest's (Cul­tural Cen­tre in Lis­bon) Artis­tic Di­rec­tor be­tween 1993 and 2004. He was also the Chief Cu­ra­tor of the “State of the World” cul­tural fo­rum at the Calouste Gul­benkian Foun­da­tion, in Lis­bon. He has been Di­rec­tor of the Cre­ativ­ity and Artis­tic Cre­ation Pro­gramme at the Calouste Gul­benkian Foun­da­tion, and also Co­or­di­na­tor of the Dis­tance and Prox­im­ity Gul­benkian Pro­gramme. Cur­rently he is Chief cu­ra­tor of the Next Fu­ture Gul­benkian Pro­gramme, launched in 2009. He is the au­thor of sev­eral pub­li­ca­tions: "Corpo a Corpo" (On the Pos­si­bil­ity of Ini­ti­at­ing an An­a­lyt­i­cal Dis­course To­wards the Arts of the Body); "Por ex­em­plo a cadeira" (For ex­am­ple the chair); "Ser fe­liz é imoral?" (Is be­ing happy im­moral? - On cul­ture, ur­ban spaces and life, and on the dis­tri­b­u­tion of the works of art); “Melan­co­lia” (Melan­choly); "Abri­gos" (Shel­ters).

“Pre­sent Tense” is a co-pro­duc­tion of the Next Fu­ture Pro­gramme and the Calouste Gul­benkian Foun­da­tion’s Del­e­ga­tion in France.

Next Fu­ture is a Gul­benkian Pro­gram of Con­tem­po­rary Cul­ture ded­i­cated in par­tic­u­lar, but not ex­clu­sively, to re­search and cre­ation in Eu­rope, Africa, Latin Amer­ica and the Caribbean.

Image: Kilu­anji Kia Henda, "The Great Ital­ian Nude", 2010.

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Sara Pais +351 217823266 spais@gulbenkian.pt

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