Collection Africalia Editions [photo]
Africalia Editions & Roularta Books 2009

Aïda Muluneh’s main fear is to lose her memory. She is afraid of losing the glances, hands, landscapes and everything that fate has presented to her. She wants to record them for the future, as testimony and confirmation that she has not made anything up ; like evidence in a trial that is continually changing. What else could this trial represent but identity ? Not identity in the legal sense, but the kind of identity that makes us into who we are. There are days when we wake up entirely deserted in a hotel room. For a few – nearly endless – seconds our distraught gaze tries to grab on to something that will tell us where we are. We are lost. People who have always lived in the place where they were born, undoubtedly do not know this sinking feeling. They have their certainties. Aïda has none, except for her human identity. She has been moving around for years, a nomad without real roots, except for the virtual roots of a home country that is not truly hers.

Technical data

The edition is in 3 languages: English, Dutch and English
Format: 24,5 x 23,5 cm
Number of pages: 144 p.
Price: 29,00 €
ISBN: 978-90-8679-200-9
Date of publication: 2009

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Exhibition

A touring exhibition presents a selection of Aïda Muluneh’s photos extracts from the book Ethiopia: past/forward.