Sammy Baloji
Biographic Data
| ID | 872200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sammy Baloji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sammy |
| FAMILY NAME | Baloji |
| SIGNATURE | BALOJI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | (1) Photographer, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds
Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds
Entretien avec Sammy Baloji. Resubjectiver les photographies des restes humains
Urban Now: City Life in Congo
Visual Essay: In a collaborative effort between anthropology and photography, a collaboration that resulted in a book and an exhibition , visual artist Sammy Baloji and anthropologist Filip De Boeck reflect on these various –different but simultaneous- narratives of urban place-making. In this joint work we offer a visual study of things that defy verbal narration: the city’s affective landscapes and moods. As such we consider changes in how citi…
Urban Now: City Life In Congo
Entretien avec Sammy Baloji: Réalisé par Yaëlle Biro, Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York, et Sandrine Colard, professeure assistante à Rutgers University
Le premier contact de Baloji avec le diorama ne remonte pas à sa jeunesse congolaise mais à sa résidence au musée royal de l’Afrique centrale de Tervuren (Belgique), en 2008. Anciennement musée du Congo belge, l’institution, imprégnée par son histoire coloniale, ouvrait alors, pour la première fois, ses collections à des artistes. Interpellé par leur théâtralité et la volonté de mise en scène du diorama, Baloji créera huit années plus tard son in…
Positing the Polis: Topography as a Way to De-centre Urban Thinking
Urban living constantly attempts to ‘suture’ the city, finding ways to stitch gains and losses, or pasts and futures together in the moment of the ‘urban now’. De Boeck’s reflection on the complexities of the postcolonial urban world in the Central African locale is shaped around the visual archive that he built up over the past years with photographer Sammy Baloji. This article addresses the possibilities of such a combination of ethnography and…
Suturing the City. Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds
An ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living in Congo’s urban worlds today. Focusing upon the ‘urban now’, a moment suspended between lingering precolonial references, the broken dreams of a colonial past, and the not yet realised promises of neoliberal futures, this book provides an ethnographic and photographic investigation of the complex meanings of living – and living together – in Congo’s urban worlds t…
The Charles Lemaire Expedition Revisited: Sammy Baloji as a Portraitist of Present Humans in Congo Far West
March 01 2014 The Charles Lemaire Expedition Revisited: Sammy Baloji as a Portraitist of Present Humans in Congo Far West Sammy Baloji, Sammy Baloji Sammy Baloji studied at the University of Lubumbashi and the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg. He now works as a photographer and video artist in Brussels and Lubumbashi, DRC. His work has been exhibited in the DRC, Mozambique, Morocco, Mali, South Africa, Germany, Belgium, Spain, F…
Suturing the City. Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds
An ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living in Congo’s urban worlds today. Focusing upon the ‘urban now’, a moment suspended between lingering precolonial references, the broken dreams of a colonial past, and the not yet realised promises of neoliberal futures, this book provides an ethnographic and photographic investigation of the complex meanings of living – and living together – in Congo’s urban worlds t…
Positing the Polis: Topography as a Way to De-centre Urban Thinking
Urban living constantly attempts to ‘suture’ the city, finding ways to stitch gains and losses, or pasts and futures together in the moment of the ‘urban now’. De Boeck’s reflection on the complexities of the postcolonial urban world in the Central African locale is shaped around the visual archive that he built up over the past years with photographer Sammy Baloji. This article addresses the possibilities of such a combination of ethnography and…
The Charles Lemaire Expedition Revisited: Sammy Baloji as a Portraitist of Present Humans in Congo Far West
March 01 2014 The Charles Lemaire Expedition Revisited: Sammy Baloji as a Portraitist of Present Humans in Congo Far West Sammy Baloji, Sammy Baloji Sammy Baloji studied at the University of Lubumbashi and the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg. He now works as a photographer and video artist in Brussels and Lubumbashi, DRC. His work has been exhibited in the DRC, Mozambique, Morocco, Mali, South Africa, Germany, Belgium, Spain, F…
The Charles Lemaire Expedition Revisited: Sammy Baloji as a Portraitist of Present Humans in Congo Far West
March 01 2014 The Charles Lemaire Expedition Revisited: Sammy Baloji as a Portraitist of Present Humans in Congo Far West Sammy Baloji, Sammy Baloji Sammy Baloji studied at the University of Lubumbashi and the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg. He now works as a photographer and video artist in Brussels and Lubumbashi, DRC. His work has been exhibited in the DRC, Mozambique, Morocco, Mali, South Africa, Germany, Belgium, Spain, F…
Suturing the City. Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds
An ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living in Congo’s urban worlds today. Focusing upon the ‘urban now’, a moment suspended between lingering precolonial references, the broken dreams of a colonial past, and the not yet realised promises of neoliberal futures, this book provides an ethnographic and photographic investigation of the complex meanings of living – and living together – in Congo’s urban worlds t…
Positing the Polis: Topography as a Way to De-centre Urban Thinking
Urban living constantly attempts to ‘suture’ the city, finding ways to stitch gains and losses, or pasts and futures together in the moment of the ‘urban now’. De Boeck’s reflection on the complexities of the postcolonial urban world in the Central African locale is shaped around the visual archive that he built up over the past years with photographer Sammy Baloji. This article addresses the possibilities of such a combination of ethnography and…
Urban Now: City Life In Congo
Entretien avec Sammy Baloji: Réalisé par Yaëlle Biro, Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York, et Sandrine Colard, professeure assistante à Rutgers University
Le premier contact de Baloji avec le diorama ne remonte pas à sa jeunesse congolaise mais à sa résidence au musée royal de l’Afrique centrale de Tervuren (Belgique), en 2008. Anciennement musée du Congo belge, l’institution, imprégnée par son histoire coloniale, ouvrait alors, pour la première fois, ses collections à des artistes. Interpellé par leur théâtralité et la volonté de mise en scène du diorama, Baloji créera huit années plus tard son in…
Urban Now: City Life in Congo
Visual Essay: In a collaborative effort between anthropology and photography, a collaboration that resulted in a book and an exhibition , visual artist Sammy Baloji and anthropologist Filip De Boeck reflect on these various –different but simultaneous- narratives of urban place-making. In this joint work we offer a visual study of things that defy verbal narration: the city’s affective landscapes and moods. As such we consider changes in how citi…
Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds
Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds
Entretien avec Sammy Baloji. Resubjectiver les photographies des restes humains
Art (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Cultural Identity and Heritage (2 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art history (1 works)