Africa Museum Palimpsest documents the evacuation and renovation of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) through the eyes of Billy Kalonji, the president of the organization of the African Diaspora in Belgium (COMRAF), which is dealing with the renovation of the Africa Museum.

Palimpsest of the Africa Museum

Under the White Mask: The Film Haesaerts Could Have Made uses fragments of Under the Black Mask, a 1958 film about Congolese art directed by the Belgian artist Paul Haesaerts, which has been qualified as colonial propaganda. This new film imagines what the masks – now subjects, and not objects – would say. Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism is spoken in Lingala for the first time. This speech is still a critical mirror for Europe. Under The White Mask is limited to the elements already existing in 1958.