Synopsis
In a creative collaboration with local farmers, Dutch artist Renzo Martens launches a project that aims to break the ties of (neo-)colonialism in Congo. He wants to build a gallery that can short-circuit the flow of money out of the country. Martens is not the first white man who arrives in Congo with a grand plan, nor is he trying to hide this fact in this almost 10-year-long project.
White Cube ‘White Cube’ is itself a work in the field between documentary filmmaking and contemporary art and an intervention all the way into the heart of the cultural institutions that have never fully cut their ties to colonialism.
