Unearthing. In Conversation is an attempt to come to terms with violent pasts, to find expressions for the unspeakable. Working with photographs that Paul Schebesta (1887-1967), Austrian-Czech missionary, writer and ethnographer, took in what is nowadays the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński’s work deals with the violent history of archival material and the trauma of colonization. Bringing to the forefront the haunting qualities of colonialism she engages in an uncanny dialogue that negotiates strategies of representation, the reproduction of specific ways of looking, and the trauma of being made other in the here and now, while at the same time problematizing strategies of artistic research. 

Unearthing. In Conversation is distributed by sixpack film, Vienna. The film is part of the collection of mumok—Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna and Le Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), Paris.