Guy Tillim

Libreville, 2012

  • Founding residence of Léon M'ba, first president of Gabon, 2012
    Founding residence of Léon M'ba, first president of Gabon, 2012
    pigment ink on cotton paper, image and paper size: 108 × 144 cm each
    edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Libreville, 2012
    Libreville, 2012
    pigment ink on cotton paper, image and paper size: 108 × 144 cm each
    edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Boulevard de l'Indépendance, 2012
    Boulevard de l'Indépendance, 2012
    pigment ink on cotton paper, image and paper size: 108 × 144 cm each
    edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Independence Day celebrations, Boulevard de l'Indépendance, 2012
    Independence Day celebrations, Boulevard de l'Indépendance, 2012
    pigment ink on cotton paper, image and paper size: 108 × 144 cm each
    edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Independence Day celebrations, Boulevard de l'Indépendance, 2012
    Independence Day celebrations, Boulevard de l'Indépendance, 2012
    pigment ink on cotton paper, image and paper size: 108 × 144 cm each
    edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Boulevard de l'Indépendance, 2012
    Boulevard de l'Indépendance, 2012
    pigment ink on cotton paper, image and paper size: 108 × 144 cm each
    edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Boulevard Omar Bongo, 2012
    Boulevard Omar Bongo, 2012
    pigment ink on cotton paper, image and paper size: 108 × 144 cm each
    edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Stade Omar Bongo, 2012
    Stade Omar Bongo, 2012
    pigment ink on cotton paper, image and paper size: 108 × 144 cm each
    edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Intercontinental Hotel, 2012
    Intercontinental Hotel, 2012
    pigment ink on cotton paper, image and paper size: 108 × 144 cm each
    edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Intercontinental Hotel, 2012
    Intercontinental Hotel, 2012
    pigment ink on cotton paper, image and paper size: 108 × 144 cm each
    edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • La Pépinière, 2012
    La Pépinière, 2012
    pigment ink on cotton paper, image and paper size: 108 × 144 cm each
    edition of 5 + 2 AP
  • Libreville, 2012
    Libreville, 2012
    pigment ink on cotton paper, image and paper size: 108 × 144 cm each
    edition of 5 + 2 AP

Tillim’s latest series of photographic images, taken in Libreville, the capital of Gabon, in 2012, draws on the formal and aesthetic concerns of his Second Nature series, as well as the ongoing interest in power and ideology in Africa that informed his Avenue Patrice Lumumba and Congo Democratic series.

Here, Tillim considers the construct of our perception of space in a city landscape, situated amidst the realities of an African capital and, inevitably, described through the prism of Africa’s colonial past. The irony of the name of the city, with its complicated relationship to autocracy and democracy, permeates Tillim’s images of this urban landscape, as do the markers of power that recur throughout his work.

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