Ângela Ferreira’s Maison Tropicale: Architecture, Colonialism and the Politics of Translation

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“…In Ferreira's artwork, components of the Maison Tropicale were remade in wood and formed into a corridor the visitor had to pass through (a human transit echoing the air transit of the boxed Maisons to and from Africa) (Allen 2015;Bock 2007). Photographs placed beyond the corridor showed sites of the Maisons Tropicale without their buildings.…”