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© Dora García. Photo: M HKA
Collection: Courtesy ProjecteSD, Barcelona.
Albert Camus’s The Plague takes place in Oran, Algeria, somewhere in the 1940s, about ten years before the Algerian Revolution against French colonial occupation began. Yet, the word "Arab" only appears twice in the novel – the indigenous population is clamorously absent from the plot. In Mapping The Plague, García structures the novel in 10 parts and relates these ten parts to different images pointing to Camus’s contradictions, a resistance fighter who yet found the domination of Algeria by France as something natural. The images come from films such as The Battle of Algiers by Gill Pontecorvo or The Stranger by Luchino Visconti, as well as historical photographs of, for example, the Algerian Revolution, the Paris Commune.
Add to your list>Mapping The Plague, 2018 (installation view — She Has Many Names, 2023, M HKA)
>Mapping The Plague, 2018 (installation view — She Has Many Names, 2023, M HKA)
>Mapping The Plague, 2018 (installation view — She Has Many Names, 2023, M HKA)
>Mapping The Plague, 2018 (installation view — She Has Many Names, 2023, M HKA)
>Mapping The Plague, 2018 (installation view — She Has Many Names, 2023, M HKA)
> Dora García.
> Exhibition: She Has Many Names . M HKA, Antwerp, 10 February 2023 - 21 May 2023.
>Dora García, The Plague, 2018.Installation, photographs, handwritten cards, books, drawing on the floor, drawings on wallpapers.