PAH’BET
Discourse of the fetish
Dunja Herzog
The project is rooted in the Bamoun culture in Cameroon.
My personal contact to the bronze casterscreated the basis for the project. The invention of the myth of Pah'Bèt is dealing with the status of tradition and his manifestations and tries to question the notion of reality. Based on realistic facts in combination with fiction it activates the viewer to think about the position, tradition and politics around the bronze culture in Cameroun at this moment. Besides the practical (producing the Pah'Bèt) and the inventive part (set-up of the mythology) there was research developed in the historical field and in the global economical context of trade. There is a strong focus on the Chinese influence on the production of bronze casted objects, which could lead to the vanish of this most important part of the Cameroon culture.
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Realisation 2006/2007
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