Allan Sekula

ENNLESCA

Jointly developed by M HKA and the KU Leuven, this long-term, interdisciplinary research project focuses on a specific, yet complex body of work; multifaceted and variably installable, unfinished and open-ended: Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum (2010-2013) by artist and theorist Allan Sekula (1951-2013). Informed by the research of the team members, the project continues to evolve in a succession of research outputs, such as this digital platform.

Allan Sekula. Collective Sisyphus

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(c)image: M HKA
Untitled (The Catch of the Sea Archive, nr. 2), 1967
Photography , 15.2 x 20.9 cm
ink, paper

Fishing in Nazaré, Portugal [as indicated on reverse of photograph], black-and-white photograph, August 23, 1967, 15.2 x 20.9 cm. Date of purchase by Allan Sekula unknown. [KEYSTONE 3/159/65199/br]

On the reverse side of the photograph: 

Fishing in Nazaré, Portugal.

Women pull the nets filled with fish. They also are in charge of selling them.

Den schönsten europäischen Fischerort...

...nennt man Nazaré an der portugiesischen Kûste, das durch Fehlen eines Hafens bisher von der Invasion moderner Boote verschont blieb.

Wenn die bunten Fischerboote des morgens vom Meer zurückkommen, stehen die Frauen bereits am Ufer, um beim Anlandziehen der Netze und Ausladen der Fische behilflich zu sein. Auch der Verkauf der Ware ist ausschliesslich ihre Aufgabe.

KEYSTONE-BILD 23.8.67

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