M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

Maryam Jafri

Getty vs. Ghana, 2012

Mixed Media

©Maryam Jafri, 2012

Collection: Courtesy of the artist.

Getty vs. Ghana, a series of photographs from Ghana’s Ministry of Information, showing the country gaining its independence in 1957, are compared to the same photos in the archives of Getty Images. Jafri’s juxtaposition reveals a number of disparities between these sets of images, such as erroneous dating, omissions and downright manipulations, thereby highlighting the political aspects of a seemingly neutral act of archiving. With its pared-down display aesthetics reminiscent of Conceptual Art, this work and others in the same series, critique Western presumptions of ownership over colonial history.

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Maryam Jafri. Maryam Jafri uses film, photography and text to reconsider the writing of colonial history, and its impact on contemporary international relations.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Meeting Points 7 – Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 October 2013 - 16 February 2014.

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>Maryam Jafri, Getty vs. Kenya vs. Corbis, 2012.Photography, archival ink jet, black and white photos and frames texts.

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