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Present Pasts of Colonial Modernity Embroideries by Lucie Kamuswekera Bogumil Jewsiewicki and Maartin Hendriks Being a historian does not mean knowing “ how xp erience whose intergenerational transmission was disrupted things really happened.” It means seizing a memory b,y three decades of armed conflict in the Kivu provinces. As a as it arises at the moment of danger w . idow and grandmother, she fully assumes the role of guarantee - —Walter Benjamin (2000: 431) ing generational continuity that her society grants to women. She inscribes her art in a dynamic continuity of sharing memories A songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. W in i ham t ages and words. She uses embroidery, a technique learned he cares about is what should’ve happened, wha a tt t he colonial school, to actualize male pictorial discourses on could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. experiences lived during the second half of the twentieth century. —Bob Dylan (2012, quoted in Wilentz 2021) She devotes part of the income from the sale of her embroideries to running a workshop where she shelters and trains four orphans ucie Kamuswekera’s embroideries are not popular (three girls and one boy), formerly street children, because
African Arts – MIT Press
Published: Jun 1, 2023
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