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Architecture, Colonial --- Lost architecture

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The installation by the architectural office Traumnovelle presents a chronology of materials, mainly coming from CIVA collections, testifying the Congolese presence in international exhibitions during colonial times starting from Antwerp Universal Exhibition 1885, the year of the birth of the « Congo Free State », until the Brussels World Fair of 1958, the last event in which Congo was presented as a colony. These colonial sections were a legitimization of colonialism itself. To convince visitors of the civilizing mission of colonialism a large emphasis was placed in the presentation on “progress”, as imported in the colonies. Progress encompassed religious, educational, cultural upheaval of the indigenous population but also stood for the modernization as implemented through technology that represented the advance of the western world itself. An exotic setting however remained crucial for appealing to the general public. Between 1885 until 1958 human zoos were organized in the frame of the exhibitions, with reconstructions of Congolese villages crowded with natives in indigenous garb. Although controversial and discussed even at that time, they were nevertheless the ones that made the success of the Tervuren exhibition in 1897. From 1894 the Ethnographic rooms also became an almost recurrent form of display.

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Architecture, Colonial --- Jefferson, Thomas, --- Jefferson, Thomas --- Architecture [Colonial ] --- United States