Cécile Fromont
@cecilefromont.bsky.social
Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
Yes. Woolens in Kongo for sure. Some qualitative thoughts on that here doi.org/10.1111/1467... and in uncpress.org/978146964124...
Common Threads: Cloth, Colour, and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Kongo and Angola
So calm was the river that the glassy surface coolly mirrored the straight reeds growing on its desolate shores. Not a breeze shuffled the plants or ruffle
doi.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Yes. Woolens in Kongo for sure. Some qualitative thoughts on that here doi.org/10.1111/1467... and in uncpress.org/978146964124...
💫 so great to hear! And in the best of best companies too 💫
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
💫 so great to hear! And in the best of best companies too 💫
Reposted by Cécile Fromont
The artists use their work as a device to unsettle fixed narratives, confront entrenched systems of power and open space for alternative ways of knowing, relating and being in the world. Join us for the opening on 𝟏𝟓 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫!
https://framerframed.nl/en/exposities/expositie-shapeshifters/
https://framerframed.nl/en/exposities/expositie-shapeshifters/
September 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The artists use their work as a device to unsettle fixed narratives, confront entrenched systems of power and open space for alternative ways of knowing, relating and being in the world. Join us for the opening on 𝟏𝟓 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫!
https://framerframed.nl/en/exposities/expositie-shapeshifters/
https://framerframed.nl/en/exposities/expositie-shapeshifters/
Oh, yes, please!! Wish I could see it.
October 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Oh, yes, please!! Wish I could see it.
Outre-mer. Can’t wait to read it!
September 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Outre-mer. Can’t wait to read it!