Picnos Tshombé by Gloria Oyarzabal
A collection of works by Spanish artist Gloria Oyarzabal.
Using photographs, text, and various documents, this book investigates how events that occurred in the Congo decades ago are still influencing today. The story opens with the abduction and disappearance of Moise Tshombe, the first president of Katanga, who separated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960. Tshombe, the separatist leader of Congo's Katanga region, which is rich in cobalt, uranium, gold, diamonds, copper and tin, has replaced Patrice Lumumba, Congo's democratically elected anti-colonial leader. In 1963, he fled to Spain under the Franco regime on suspicion of murder. But four years later, someone hijacked a plane from Ibiza to Palma, and after two years of house arrest in an Algerian military camp, he died.
European colonization of Africa and the turmoil over its independence have continued to the present day, and immigration from Africa is one of those effects. In this book, the author poses us with visual representations of the inequalities and complex relationships established between Europe and Africa, and between Europeans and Africans.
First edition limited to 700 copies.
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Title: Picnos Tshombé
Artist: Gloria Oyarzabal
Witty Books, 2018
Hardcover, 170 x 240 mm
142 pages + booklet of 32 pages
First edition of 700 copies
¥5,300 + tax