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Join architectural historian and exhibition maker Samia Henni for a walk-through the exhibition Performing Colonial Toxicity.

Unfolding across a series of audio-visual assemblages — each consisting of maps, photographs, film, stills, documents and archival testimonies, this archival survey exhibition documents France’s secret nuclear programme in Algeria during and after the Algerian Revolution (1954-62).

The exhibition presents available, offered, contraband and leaked materials from these archives in an immersive multimedia installation. Henni’s research straddles between oral histories and investigative reportage, bearing witness to the suppressed history of French colonial violence and its ongoing impact in Algeria. Throughout the tour, Samia will delve further into the history of the programme, recounting oral testimonies, first hand accounts and unknown anecdotes not present in the installation.

A light breakfast will be served.

Samia Henni is an architectural historian, exhibition maker and educator. Working through textual and visual strategies, her practice interrogates histories of the built, destroyed and imagined environment – those produced by processes and mechanisms of colonisation, forced displacement, nuclear weapons, resource extraction and warfare.

Image: Installation photo of the exhibition Performing Colonial Toxicity (2023) by Samoa Henni at Framer Framed in collaboration with If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want o Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam. Photo Maarten Nauw.