Exhibition "Nobosudru"

Description

Come and discover the global impact of the photograph taken of a Mangbetu woman in the Congo in 1920.
What image comes to mind when you think of an African woman?

It is probably that of Nobosudru, a Mangbetu woman with a very peculiar skull who was photographed for the first time in 1920 in the Congo and who has since travelled around the world to become one of the symbols of Africa.

The snapshot was taken by George Specht and Leon Poirier during the Citroën crossing from Algeria to Cape Town.

At first, Nobosudru was used as an icon to represent and promote the colonial vision of Africa, and from there, she began to be used in documentaries, stamps, ethnological texts, postcards, advertising, art and fashion.

She has been used for everything!

So much so that there are more than 8,000 photographs, 27,000 metres of film and 15 albums of drawings with its representation.

And the IVAM has compiled 80 of these pieces to summarise and analyse how this image went viral.

The exhibition will be available until 8 December and you can get your tickets here.

Are you going to miss it?