Guy Tillim - Museum of the Revolution amsterdam

Guy Tillim - Museum of the Revolution amsterdamMACK 2019 These photographs were made on long walks through the streets of African capitals, including Johannesburg, Durban, Maputo, Beira, Harare, Nairobi, Kigali, Kampala, Addis Ababa, Luanda, Libreville, Accra, Dakar and Dar es Salaam, and the series takes its title from the Museum of the Revolution in Maputo, Mozambique, which is situated on the Avenida 24 Julho. The 24th of July 1875 marked the end of an Anglo Portuguese conflict for possession

He realised that the Fukase Photographic Studio

these imaginary worlds are sculpted

including a poem by Behrouz Boochani

and creates scenes in which Black and queer voices are the authority

it offers a heightened performance of itself

Vince Leo and Wolfgang Ullrich contribute texts

and the joy – the festivals

Since the mid-1950s

His black-and-white photographs strike a careful balance between presumed objectivity and subtle irony

Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s The Land in Between presents the complex bond between landscape and human civilization

similarities

I’ve been trying to connect complex patterns of observation