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Poetics of Postcolonial Art. The Installations of Ana Torfs
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Poetics of Postcolonial Art. The Installations of Ana Torfs

(Reinier Salverda) The Low Countries - 2018, № 26, pp. 198-207

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Ana Torfs’s beautifully crafted, enchanting, experimental and postcolonial installations start out from established European conventions of art and reality, but then step outside and present us with a multimodal Gesamtkunstwerk, made with full use of anything that may serve to evoke what one cannot simply see – whether it is the meanings and insights produced by this echolalic art, the unresolved presence of the colonial past, the shackles of our language, or the legs of Rembrandt’s bird of paradise.

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