La Une post-coloniale : "Fondation" - 2020

Co-directrice et designer de la publication d'une une de journal dans le cadre du projet « Inscriptions en relation — des traces coloniales aux expressions plurielles », imaginé par Ruedi et Vera Baur et porté par Civic City, 2020.

Co director and designer of the front page of a newspaper as part of the project "Inscriptions in relation - from colonial traces to plural expressions", imagined by Ruedi and Vera Baur and supported by Civic City, 2020.

    "It was the discovery of the Congo River that allowed European settlers to settle in the territory. The river gave its name to both countries until their respective independence in 1960. The Democratic Republic of Congo was then called the former Belgian colony and the Republic of Congo the former French colony. The Congolese speak French, but also Lingala (Congo-Brazzaville) and Swahili (in DRC), which serve as lingua franca.
The conquest of the Congo by the Belgians and the French in the xɪxe century marked the history of both countries from a political, economic and cultural point of view and still plays a role in the daily life of its inhabitants. We have chosen to evoke these aspects with the help of excerpts from press articles published in France, Belgium and on the spot in the Congo.
The word "foundation", engraved on the facade of the Golden Gate Palace, has a great deal of meaning in the history of the Congo. It is synonymous with building, with foundation. The foundation is the basis that allowed France and Belgium to establish themselves, to establish their authority over the colonized country.
The writings of the time reveal without too much detour the way in which the two European countries built their foundations in a firm and authoritarian manner, without consideration of the human behind the work force that the Congolese represented.
 The layout is divided into three strong columns separated by wide margins. Two typefaces, Manège and Baskerville, both serif typefaces, are a nod to the typefaces engraved on historical monuments. At the Golden Gate Palace, a monument caught our attention. It is opposite the museum and commemorates the particularly deadly Congo-Nile mission conducted between 1896 and 1898 by Commander Jean-Baptiste Marchand. The headstone is an abstract representation of this monument by its stepped shape and the solid disc that composes it. The presence of the river engraved on the stone is also noticeable. We transcribe it in the layout of our front page, divided by a lizard of the same shape. It weakens the very straight composition of the three columns."