White Cube

In this film, the Dutch artist Renzo Martens – the author of the remarkable work entitled Enjoy poverty in 2008 −, gives us an account of his unique experience in Lusanga, Congo. In 2014, a group of artist-planters formed a cooperative in order to sell their works and buy back lands which had been confiscated for several decades due to their exploitation by Unilever. Shown in the most prestigious museums across the world, from New York to Amsterdam, these works symbolise post-colonial re-appropriation of a joyous kind, which has a direct effect on the lives of the inhabitants. In Lusanga, a whole new ecological and economic has come to light: post-plantation. Seizing upon the western concept of the “White Cube”, the workers set in motion change of a radical nature in the face of inequality, bringing with it a great deal of hope.