Workshop Tour

An infinite history

Historical critique

A person sits at a table reviewing printed images during a workshop or collaborative session.
© Veerle Vercauteren
Date
On demand
Duration
120 min
Type
Workshop Tour
Location

Welcome Room

Rates

€250

Rates:
Guide en français
€250.00
Gids in het Nederlands
€250.00
Gids in het Nederlands
€250.00
Guide en français
€250.00
Audience
Secondary school Secondary Y5-6
Participants
Max 25
Languages
FR NL
Themes
Colonial histories, archives, historical critique
Partners
Belgik MoJaik, Delphine Buysse
Tour (90 min)

Historical critique

Together with Belgik MoJaik, an association promoting cultural diversity and civic education, pupils visit the exhibition An infinite woman, examining images and narratives linked to Belgian colonial history. What do these works reveal about passed-down stories, and about the ways in which images are produced, circulated and interpreted? Through archives, paintings and photographs, pupils analyse, compare and question these materials, developing a critical and nuanced understanding of their representation.

Workshop (90 min)

Delphine Buysse, artist and researcher at the Cheikh Anta Diop Institute in Dakar, leads a creative session in which pupils collect their interpretations of the exhibition and turn them into a fanzine. This independent, handcrafted format moves beyond traditional publishing frameworks and allows for more creative freedom. Pupils reinterpret narratives and explore perspectives beyond dominant viewpoints. Each choice of image, text and layout becomes a way of understanding how narratives are constructed and communicated.
Participants experiment with collective expression through the creation of a fanzine printed on site.

This tour and workshop are based on the exhibition An infinite woman, which revisits the circulation of the image of Mangbetu women as a colonial symbol, and its subversion by artists of African descent who have reappropriated it.

Educational resources

More about the exhibition

An infinite woman

Black archives in two acts

Barbara Walker MBE RA, 'The Sitter', 2002 © Courtesy of Tate Modern
Exhibition Art
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