Video and fine artist Ana Barata will be exhibiting their work about Portugese colonial memory and in Centrifug.

A world without America is an essay film using personal narratives and epoch archive material to portray the Portuguese post-dictatorial era. These tell how historical memory is not always consensual but mostly opaque, and how silence is used to cope with the failure of political ideology. The video’s imagery is photographic material of political murals painted right after the end of the dictatorship (1974) and the leftovers of murals of the same type are present currently in Lisbon. The other images are taken from epoch colonial-style magazines and printed media reporting the progress of the modernist project in Angola and other colonized countries.