JULY 5TH at 6PM at Centre de la gravure
Exhibition from 5th July to 29th July
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La Louvière, daughter of the Industrial Revolution, was officially born in 1869, four years into Leopold II’s reign. Sixteen years later, the king will become the sole monarch of the Congo Free State – by means of terror. Industrialisation, colonisation: progress is on the march… It is now 2018 and Leopold’s statues are still standing proudly all over Belgium. What to do with this legacy?
CONGOVERPR!NT is the start of a horizontal dialogue, visual and philosophical, around the question of this persistence - and its significance today.
With works by : Alexandre Ayivi, Daniel Cabral, Lou Cocody-Valentino, Simon Dalemans, Pauline Emond, Abigaël Huyard, Pierre Huyghebaert, Julia Lebrao Sendra, Aimé Mpané, Jean Pierre Muller, Richard Rawlins, Alexandra Stewart, Kang Gao, You He, QinXue Wang, YW Group, …
Museum Page = https://www.centredelagravure.be/fr/exhibitions/17838-congoverprnt-du-6-au-29-juillet