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| Senegalese at the original 1914 Congo Village. via Anne Sophie Ofrim on Wikimedia Commons |
European Attraction Limited, a project by Norwegian-Sudanese artist Mohamed Ali Fadlabi and Swedish artist Lars Cuznor, is creating a lot of controversy in Norway. The installation is a re-creation of the Congo Village, an exhibit at the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition in Oslo that put 80 Senegalese people on public view in a simulated African village.
The artists hope their "Congo Village" display will help erase what they say is Norwegians' collective amnesia about racism but many say that it perpetuates the racism it seeks to end.
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