Maison Tropicale
by Manthia Diawara
Director: Manthia Diawara
Production: Jürgen Bock,
Lumiar Cité/Maumaus
Editing: Pedro Rodrigues
Camera: Bruno Ramos
Sound: António Fialho, Goumour Mohamed, Adelaide Mboueya,
Ed Paredes
Country: Portugal
Year: 2008
Runtime: 58’
Colour, sound
Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Tamasheq
Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese
With Ângela Ferreira,
Mirelle Ngatsé, João Fernandes,
Salah Hassan.
Commissioned by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.
Funded by Portuguese Ministry of Culture / Directorate General of the Arts, Museu Colecção Berardo, RTP 2
Premiere:
Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, 10.03.2008
Mireille Ngatsé lived for several years in the Maison Tropicale in Brazzaville. It was designed by Jean Prouvé, the famous French engineer and architect. Ngatsé describes the aluminium house as comfortable, even though it had no electricity or running water. She loved the fresh air and the light coming in through the round windows.
One day, four men came from France to Brazzaville, and took the Maison Tropicale away in containers. Today, Mireille Ngatsé sees her house in a catalogue, and reads about it as it is being exhibited around the world as a precious art object.
Mali-born Manthia Diawara’s documentary is a complement to Ângela Ferreira’s artistic project on the Maison Tropicale by Jean Prouvé, which was shown at the Venice Biennale in 2007. The film brings to life the hidden stories and memories of those left behind in Africa when the Maisons Tropicales were removed. It is a postcolonial excavation into African identity, art and the notion of cultural heritage.
Maumaus
Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar, 148 - 3º C
1050-021 Lisboa, Portugal
Monday to Friday, 10h00 to 13h00,
14h30 to 19h00
Tel: + 351 21 352 11 55
maumaus@maumaus.org
Current:
Independent Study Programme
Call 2024
Until 03.09.2023
Upcoming:
Manthia Diawara
Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom
Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
30.09.2023, 19h00
Commissioned by Serpentine, MUBI and PCAI Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative, as part of Serpentine's Back to Earth project.
Upcoming:
Lecture
Mason Leaver-Yap
Critical Intimacies: Changing Relations in the Production
of Contemporary Art
04.03.2024, 19h00
Maumaus
Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar, 148 - 3º C
1050-021 Lisboa, Portugal
The discussion will be in English.
Entry is free and limited to the number
of seats available.
PROBLEMATISING REALITY
Encounters between art and philosophy
Programme 4
Shot, counter-shot
Here and Elsewhere
(Ici et ailleurs, 1976)
by Jean-Luc Godard
and Anne-Marie Miéville
with Marwa Arsanios
and Ghalya Saadawi,
moderated by Stefanie Baumann
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Auditorium 2
16.02.2024, 18h30
Seminar 2
The Psychic and the
Social Founding Violence of Law
with Ghalya Saadawi
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Sala 2, Zona de Congressos
14.–15.02.2024, 11h–13h,14h–17h
Upcoming:
Programme 4
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
16.02.2024
Programme 2:
(de)framing the frame
Meeting the Man:
James Baldwin in Paris (1970)
by Terence Dixon
with Sarah Lewis-Cappellari
and Kerstin Stakemeier
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Auditorium 2
23.11.2023, 18h30
Programme 1:
space, place and memory
with Billy Woodberry
and Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Auditorium 3
13.10.2023, 18h30
Manthia Diawara
Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom
Sharjah Biennial 15
07.02. – 11.06.2023
Manthia Diawara
A Letter from Yene
Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto
14.03.2023
Current:
Seminar
Amanda Boetzkes
Realism Without Authority
01.04, 04.04.2022
10h–13h, 14h–17h
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Registration is free but limited to the number of seats available. Please send an email with a short CV to admin@maumaus.org by 24.03.2022. Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. The seminar will be in English.
Lumiar Cité
Rua Tomás del Negro, 8A
1750-105 Lisboa, Portugal
Wednesday to Sunday, 15h00 to 19h00
or by appointment.
Tel: + 351 21 755 15 70
lumiar.cite@maumaus.org
Loretta Fahrenholz
Circle Navel Nil
24.04. – 27.06.2021
24.06 | 18h00 Online conversation with Sabeth
Buchmann, Loretta Fahrenholz and Jürgen Bock
Current:
Anna Schachinger
Allover
08.10. – 11.12.2022
07.10 | 18h00 Circulating Salt, Ayami Awazuhara
08.10 | 16h00 Opening of the exhibition
Current:
Cosima von Bonin
Boy at Work
15.04. – 23.07.2023
15.04 | 17h00 Opening of the exhibition
20.07 | 19h00 Talk by Diedrich Diederichsen
Dozie Kanu
PREENCHENDO VAZIOS
20.01. – 14.04.2024
20.01 | 16h00 Opening of the exhibition
16.03 | 17h00 Talk between Dozie Kanu
and Simon Thompson
Upcoming:
D(O)UBLE ACT
a conversation between
Dozie Kanu and Simon Thompson
16.03.2024, 17h00
Upcoming:
Sid Iandovka & Anya Tsyrlina with Leslie Thornton & Thomas Zummer
once in a hundred years
27.04. – 28.07.2024 | Lumiar Cité
18.05. – 28.07.2024 | Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
A combined exhibition between
Lumiar Cité and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg.
A co-production by Lumiar Cité
and Artium Museum
14.10 | 17h00 Book launch with talk between
Alejandro Cesarco and
Miguel Wandschneider
| 18h00 Opening of the exhibition
Current:
Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz
24.03. – 24.09.2023
Upcoming:
Lumiar Cité
14.10.2023 – 14.01.2024
Collaboration:
The Educational Web
Kunstverein in Hamburg
01.04. – 06.08.2023
Closed 24, 25, 31 December and 1 January
Arne Kaiser and Jürgen Bock
In cooperation with Lumiar Cité:
Tiffany Chung
Thu Thiêm: an archaeological
project for future remembrance
08.06. - 08.09.2019
Johann Jacobs Museum
In co-production with Lumiar Cité:
Alejandro Cesarco
Other Recent Examples
24.03. - 24.09.2023
Artium Museum
The Educational Web
31.03. - 06.08.2023
Kunstverein in Hamburg
Maumaus/Lumiar Cité is funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes. With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar.