Edited with text by Karen Irvine, Dawit L. Petros. Foreword by Natasha Egan. Text by Lindsay Caplan, Teresa Fiore, Ruth Iyob, Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Onur Öztürk.
Incorporating historical photos into his images of the African coast, Eritrean artist Dawit L. Petros reckons with the legacy of Italian colonialism
Through various strategies, Eritrean artist Dawit L. Petros (born 1972) probes the propaganda of Italian colonialism in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya and Somalia; the technologies used to dominate occupied countries; and the imperfect ways in which these histories are inscribed in public and private memory.
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Published by Mousse Publishing. Edited with text by Karen Irvine, Dawit L. Petros. Foreword by Natasha Egan. Text by Lindsay Caplan, Teresa Fiore, Ruth Iyob, Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Onur Öztürk.
Incorporating historical photos into his images of the African coast, Eritrean artist Dawit L. Petros reckons with the legacy of Italian colonialism
Through various strategies, Eritrean artist Dawit L. Petros (born 1972) probes the propaganda of Italian colonialism in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya and Somalia; the technologies used to dominate occupied countries; and the imperfect ways in which these histories are inscribed in public and private memory.