White Cube

2020

1h 17m

6.8

6.8/10

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Overview

Visitors to the temples of modern art in global cities will be familiar with the white cube gallery space. But when one arises in the middle of a Congolese palm oil plantation, the effect is deeply disorienting. Furthermore, it draws attention to the often overlooked ties between colonialism and the art world, for example, through the multinationals that now proudly sponsor these Western museums. This Congolese arts center is part of artist Renzo Martens’s unorthodox plan to jump-start the local economy. Former workers at the plantation make sculptures that are reproduced in chocolate, and then exhibited in New York. The plantation workers, most of whom earn a dollar or less a day, use the profits from this successful exhibition to buy back the land confiscated from them by Unilever.

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Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies

Pieter van Huystee Film & TV

Production Countries

Netherlands

Spoken Languages

English

Quick Facts

Release Date	November 26, 2020
Status	Released
Language	EN
IMDb ID	tt13156838

Cast

Key Crew

Renzo Martens

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