The touring exhibition “Surinamese Wedding ceremony Portraits” will likely be on view from June 24 till September 7, 2022, at FOAM (Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, positioned at Keizersgracht 609, 1017 DS Amsterdam). This exhibition was created in collaboration with visitor curator Lucia Nankoe.
The exhibition Surinamese Wedding ceremony Portraits is a set of memorable images. The portraits come from the interval from 1846 to 1954, when Suriname was nonetheless a Dutch colony. Collectively they cowl nearly a century of Surinamese historical past. The household pictures and tales present the extent to which Surinamese folks, beneath Dutch administration, migrated to all corners of the world. They usually discovered their accomplice elsewhere, in locations like Aruba, Curaçao or Bonaire, within the former Dutch East Indies, the Netherlands or North America. The energy of this assortment of non-public pictures, subsequently, lies within the many alternative connections that stretched all around the world.
The exhibition consists of a couple of hundred marriage ceremony pictures and plenty of household histories. Collectively they inform the story of numerous private bonds that cross borders, ethnicity or faith. This didn’t at all times go down easily, but most lovers adopted the trail of their hearts and love typically triumphed over the spirit of the instances.
The household tales are sometimes linked with essential themes that characterize the colonial historical past of Suriname: slavery, contract labour, immigration and emigration, battle and wrestle. However the tales additionally speak about private bonds, range and unity. For that purpose, the pictures are usually not solely of nice significance to the folks whose household histories had been immortalised, however in addition they present a shared (inter)nationwide historical past.
The thought to carry these extraordinary portraits collectively originated with Lucia Nankoe, visitor curator of this exhibition, in 2014. Collectively together with her staff she spoke with descendants of bridal {couples} with at the least one ancestor of Surinamese descent. The ensuing assortment of portraits has continued to develop steadily because the publication of a e book and a travelling exhibition in 2019. The challenge now consists of greater than 135 pictures and tales.
This exhibition was created in collaboration with visitor curator Lucia Nankoe. FOAM additionally thanks José Komen, Gerard Sweep and Astrid Waltmans for his or her help.
Museum FOAM Keizersgracht 609, 1017 DS Amsterdam, Open day by day 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
The e book, Trouwportretten. Surinaamse Voorouders in Beeld. Album 1846-1950, was revealed by Uitgeverij In de Knipscheer in 2019. The observe as much as the publication will likely be revealed in June this 12 months: Picture Tales from the Surinamese Previous 1868-1950 (Fotovertellingen uit het Surinaamse verleden 1868-1950). The e book is obtainable in Dutch and on the market within the FOAM museum store.