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  title info:
    title: Songs of the Walés
  name:
    name part: Willocq, Patrick
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: photographer.
  name:
    name part: Mbula, Martin Boilo
    name part: 1942 or 1943-
    role:
      role term: writer of supplementary textual content.
  name:
    name part: Copper House Gallery
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  name:
    name part: Project 2.0 (Gallery : Hague, Netherlands)
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  name:
    name part: AKAA - Also Known as Africa (Art Fair) 2017 : Paris, France),
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: lol
  language:
    language term: fre
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 195 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: For the Ekonda pygmies in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the most important event in the life of a woman is the birth of her first child. The young mother is called Walé (primiparous nursing mother). For several years after giving birth, she lives in semi-seclusion, separated from her husband, cared for by other female tribe members and covered daily in red powder made of Ngola wood. When the time comes to reenter society, she puts on a show for the community, translating the lessons learned during seclusion into songs and dances. These celebrations captured the attention of French photographer Patrick Willocq, who, in a unique collaboration with some Walés, their respective clans, an ethnomusicologist, an artist and many artisans of the forest, constructed elaborate and surreal sets, in the middle of the jungle and without any photoshop montage nor collage, inspired by the Ekonda mothers' chants, and then photographed staged scenes of the women within them. This book presents the series produced between 2013 and 2015, among them I Am Walé Respect Me and Forever Walé. Through this work Patrick Willocq takes his images far from the usual hackneyed and clichéd depiction of the Congo (where he grew up) and brings a fresh interpretation of Africa.
  note: Patrick Willocq ; [texts, Martin Boilo Mbula [and 4 others] ; translation French to English, Christine Schultz-Touge].
  note: On the occasion of an exhibition held at The Copper House Gallery, May 8-31, 2017, Project 2.0/Gallery, the Hague, November 2017, AKAA, Also known as Africa Art Fair VisionQuesT, Paris, November 2017.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Added text in English and Mongo-Nkundu.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-cg---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Willocq, Patrick
      name part: 1969-
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Staged photography
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Photography, Artistic
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Photography in ethnology
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Ekonda (African people)
    genre: Pictorial works
  subject:
    geographic: Congo (Democratic Republic)
    genre: Pictorial works
  classification: TR647 .W45 2017
  classification: 770
  identifier: 9783868288308
  identifier: 3868288309
  record info:
    record content source: OHX
    record creation date: 171208
    record change date: 20181023092643.0
    record identifier: in00004002260