Title: Zambia! Zambia!
Photography by: Geert van Kesteren
Venue: Kunsthal Rotterdam
Curators: Charlotte van Lingen, Teun van der Heijden
Extract from an article by Eddie Marsman published in NRC Next on December 11, 2007: “The photographs are exhibited in a long straight line on the walls of the narrow exhibition
room which acts as a horizon, with a minimum of space in between. The first thing you notice are not the photographs, but a pattern of thin vertical lines sticking out above and below the
images. Only after a while do you notice that the lines consist of Zambian statistics in words and figures: labor force 4,9 million; unemployment 50%; number of people with HIV/AIDS
930,000; life expectancy 38.44 years. This information is not legible, but is repeated in the small catalogue. In essence, this is a cardiogram: the heartbeat of Zambia. It’s a designer’s
game, but based on content. The cardiogram contains the statistical information behind the photographic story, while the photographs give visual expression to the abstract figures.”
