Taking place on 17 April, the event includes the online film screening followed by discussions with the director and scholars about the implications of the project.
Sharjah Art Foundation and The Africa Institute will co-host the Middle East premiere of White Cube (2020), a feature-length film that documents the successful attempt by Congolese workers on a former Unilever palm oil plantation to co-opt the ‘white cube’ as a way to buy back their land from international corporations and secure it for future generations.
The premiere will take place on 17 April 2021 at 8 PM (GMT +4) online, is free to attend, and will be followed by a discussion with the director Martens and Surafel Wondimu (Okwui Enwezor Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Culture, Performance Studies and Critical Humanities at The Africa Institute).
The two institutions will be joining the Global Museum Launch event, running from 24 March to 24 April, and including more than 15 participating institutions, during which the film will be projected daily onto the walls of the White Cube, an art museum designed by OMA/David Gianotten and built by the workers on their land in Lusanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
