Gabriella Nugent
Biographic Data
| ID | 4149719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriella Nugent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriella |
| FAMILY NAME | Nugent |
| SIGNATURE | NUGENT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal College of Art |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A World in Common
In 2004, Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent opened at Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf and then went on a three-year tour, travelling to London, Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm, and finally Johannesburg. Curated at large by Simon Njami, the exhibition showcased the work of more than eighty artists from twenty-three countries created in the previous ten years.1Africa Remix was staged off the back of a decade that had witnessed the globalization…
Penny Siopis
Decolonization, Heritage, And Problems of Forgetting
As art historians and curators have attempted to foreground African artists in the name of decolonization, there has been a certain forgetfulness of previous postcolonial attempts to reckon with colonial knowledge production. Questions around the relationship between political decolonization, postcolonialism, decoloniality, and current demands to decolonize have come to the fore in recent years. Nugent addresses these concerns as they relate to A…
Telling Stories
African Art and Art History
Between African Sculpture and Black Diasporic Experiences
Historical works of African sculpture have become increasingly entangled with the global Black Lives Matter movement. A popular sign that was carried by protestors in the United Kingdom after the police killing of the unarmed African American man George Floyd in May 2020 read: “Don't like looting? You will hate the British Museum.” Meanwhile, a statement from the British Museum deploring Floyd's death and expressing solidarity with the Black Live…
Lumumba in the Arts
Patrice Émery Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was assassinated on January 17, 1961, six months after the country had gained independence from seventy-five years of Belgian colonial rule on June 30, 1960. Lumumba was murdered directly by the Belgian government and Congolese rebels with the indirect help of the United States and the United Nations. In the context of the Cold War, Lumumba…
Unfixed
In the 1990s, the work of west African photographers, such as Seydou Keïta, Malik Sidibé, Samuel Fosso and J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, came to the attention of curators and collectors in Europe and North America. Their celebration in the West coincided with a wave of globalization in the art world, as well as the explosion of biennial culture and, in turn, the proliferation of voices, styles, and perspectives. Despite these shifts, there endures a depe…
From Camera to Canvas
This article explores the entanglement of Congolese popular painting with photography through the case of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was assassinated in 1961. Lumumba’s final public appearance was immortalized in a series of photographs and newsreel footage that was disseminated around the world. The author contends that the events thereafter are frequently envisioned …
Futures and Fictions
Reviews of: Chad Elias, Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon (Duke, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), 71 colour illns, 264 pp., ISBN: 9780822347668, Hardback $99.95, Paperback $26.95. Barbara Steiner and Nicole Fritz (eds), Congo Stars (Cologne: Buchandlung Walther König, 2018), 150 colour illns, 208 pp., ISBN: 9783960984344, Paperback €30.70. Sarah Suzuki (ed.), Bodys Isek Kingelez (New York: The Muse…
Mining Time in Sammy Baloji's Mémoire
Mémoire, a series of photomontages constructed in 2006 by the Congolese artist Sammy Baloji, comprises a set of black-and-white archival photographs embedded onto colored prints of the contemporary landscape of Lubumbashi, a city located in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the thirty composite images, Congolese men and women and European officials extracted from photographs produced mainly during the 1920s–30s in the B…
From Camera to Canvas
This article explores the entanglement of Congolese popular painting with photography through the case of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was assassinated in 1961. Lumumba’s final public appearance was immortalized in a series of photographs and newsreel footage that was disseminated around the world. The author contends that the events thereafter are frequently envisioned …
Futures and Fictions
Reviews of: Chad Elias, Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon (Duke, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), 71 colour illns, 264 pp., ISBN: 9780822347668, Hardback $99.95, Paperback $26.95. Barbara Steiner and Nicole Fritz (eds), Congo Stars (Cologne: Buchandlung Walther König, 2018), 150 colour illns, 208 pp., ISBN: 9783960984344, Paperback €30.70. Sarah Suzuki (ed.), Bodys Isek Kingelez (New York: The Muse…
Mining Time in Sammy Baloji's Mémoire
Mémoire, a series of photomontages constructed in 2006 by the Congolese artist Sammy Baloji, comprises a set of black-and-white archival photographs embedded onto colored prints of the contemporary landscape of Lubumbashi, a city located in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the thirty composite images, Congolese men and women and European officials extracted from photographs produced mainly during the 1920s–30s in the B…
From Camera to Canvas
This article explores the entanglement of Congolese popular painting with photography through the case of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was assassinated in 1961. Lumumba’s final public appearance was immortalized in a series of photographs and newsreel footage that was disseminated around the world. The author contends that the events thereafter are frequently envisioned …
Unfixed
In the 1990s, the work of west African photographers, such as Seydou Keïta, Malik Sidibé, Samuel Fosso and J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, came to the attention of curators and collectors in Europe and North America. Their celebration in the West coincided with a wave of globalization in the art world, as well as the explosion of biennial culture and, in turn, the proliferation of voices, styles, and perspectives. Despite these shifts, there endures a depe…
African Art and Art History
Between African Sculpture and Black Diasporic Experiences
Historical works of African sculpture have become increasingly entangled with the global Black Lives Matter movement. A popular sign that was carried by protestors in the United Kingdom after the police killing of the unarmed African American man George Floyd in May 2020 read: “Don't like looting? You will hate the British Museum.” Meanwhile, a statement from the British Museum deploring Floyd's death and expressing solidarity with the Black Live…
Lumumba in the Arts
Patrice Émery Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was assassinated on January 17, 1961, six months after the country had gained independence from seventy-five years of Belgian colonial rule on June 30, 1960. Lumumba was murdered directly by the Belgian government and Congolese rebels with the indirect help of the United States and the United Nations. In the context of the Cold War, Lumumba…
Telling Stories
Decolonization, Heritage, And Problems of Forgetting
As art historians and curators have attempted to foreground African artists in the name of decolonization, there has been a certain forgetfulness of previous postcolonial attempts to reckon with colonial knowledge production. Questions around the relationship between political decolonization, postcolonialism, decoloniality, and current demands to decolonize have come to the fore in recent years. Nugent addresses these concerns as they relate to A…
A World in Common
In 2004, Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent opened at Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf and then went on a three-year tour, travelling to London, Paris, Tokyo, Stockholm, and finally Johannesburg. Curated at large by Simon Njami, the exhibition showcased the work of more than eighty artists from twenty-three countries created in the previous ten years.1Africa Remix was staged off the back of a decade that had witnessed the globalization…
Penny Siopis
Art (8 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works) · History (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works)