Sammy Baloji. Memoire 8, 2006.

From press pack: Sammy Baloji superimposes colonial black and white archive photos, from the once Belgian run mines of Katanga in Congo, with his own colour images of today’s mines and neglected infrastructure. The work references the lucrative industrial past of the area that benefited the Belgian colonizers, while its people were forced into slavery. Merging past and present Baloji exposes the cruelty of the colonial years as well as current abuses both of power and of the earth’s natural resources.