Dino de Santiago – Portuguese and native of Cape Verde? Yes, where does your music come from? What does Algerian photographer Louise Narbo ask when she asks: “Who invented me like me?” What does it mean to be a cultural producer in plastic work, like Delio Hasse in photography? What is an Afro-political piece like that of John C. Cobra? What does the Algerian Amalia Escriva do, filming the end of the people (black feet)?
This collection of questions is an example of those that Antonio Pinto Ribeiro (APR) collected to answer in the conclusions of his research in the book “Novo Mundo – Contemporary Art in the Tempo da Pós-Memória”. This work, in which contemporary artists are analyzed in their post-memory state, is the result of the academic research project Memoirs – Children of the Empire and European Post-Memories (Center for Social Research, CES, University of Coimbra), which mapped artists in a post-memory state in designated second and third generations of descendants of African descent, especially in Belgium, France and Portugal. “First of all, the analysis of their work allowed us to place them in this post-memory state,” writes APR in the introduction.
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