What emerges from the work created by Virginia Ryan during her time in Ghana and Ivory Coast is an image of Africa that is post-exotic and postnostalgic. It is contemporary and urban; not waiting to be discovered to be represented as in the colonial imagination of conquest; rather it has always provided self-representations. Virginia Ryan’s work operates in that place of dialogue and disagreement that lies between Western rhetoric, fuelled by literature, cinema, and the many and varied African players presentinging themselves: it is a vast archive of memory and of visions, both unique and shared, in which individuals represent themselves in relation to others. For this reason her work, and not less her story, is plural
Bargna, I., Bonsu, O., Coccia, M., Feld, S., De Leonardis, M., Manganaro, S., et al. (2018). Biografia Plurale. Virginia Ryan: Arte, Africa e altrove / Art, Africa, and Elsewhere (I. Bargna, M. Coccia, a cura di). Fabrizio Fabbri Editore.
Biografia Plurale. Virginia Ryan: Arte, Africa e altrove / Art, Africa, and Elsewhere
Bargna, I;
2018
Abstract
What emerges from the work created by Virginia Ryan during her time in Ghana and Ivory Coast is an image of Africa that is post-exotic and postnostalgic. It is contemporary and urban; not waiting to be discovered to be represented as in the colonial imagination of conquest; rather it has always provided self-representations. Virginia Ryan’s work operates in that place of dialogue and disagreement that lies between Western rhetoric, fuelled by literature, cinema, and the many and varied African players presentinging themselves: it is a vast archive of memory and of visions, both unique and shared, in which individuals represent themselves in relation to others. For this reason her work, and not less her story, is plural
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