Review: Barthélémy Toguo’s Bilongue connected portraiture and colonial memory

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

In its review of Barthélémy Toguo’s Bilongue at Stevenson Cape Town, ArtThrob considered how portraits of people in Douala brought contemporary life into conversation with colonial archives. Watercolours, drawings and carved wooden faces explored memory and human connection. The critic interpreted photographs inserted into portraits and stamp-like borders as challenges to imposed accounts of African history, emphasizing care and empathy as central to the exhibition’s treatment of its subjects.

Summarised from ArtThrob · Vusumzi Nkomo. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.