On the occasion of his installation at sonsbeek20-24, artist Willem de Rooij and sonsbeek co-curator Zippora Elders will have a conversation about Pierre Verger in Suriname (2020), De Rooij's eponymous book.

The publication consists of photographs and five newly commissioned essays by Karin Amatmoekrim, Ayrson Heráclito, Philippe Pirotte, Richard Price, Willem de Rooij, and Gloria Wekker. Each of them engages with the figure of Pierre Verger; as an individual, a photographer, and as a Yoruba priest. The essays also address the history and present of multiethnic Suriname, the hierarchies of the gaze, and the role of anthropology, both in Verger’s era and today. 

The book is available here. 

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