Societies, Cultures and Modern Languages

he project The banquet-creation: portraits of slavery in Colombia (^17th-19th centuries) "consists of a collective experiment in research and creation with students from Master 1 LLCER (Hispanic Arts S7, 2024-25) from the UGA SoCLE research department, on the history of slaves in Colombia, analyzed over a meal whose originality lies in the creation of paintings that tell a story of slavery based on the archives of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.^e-XIX^e centuries of the University of Rosario in Bogotá, with its slave-owning past.
These archives, cross-referenced with numerous portraits of Afro-descendant history in the Americas, establish a dialogue with the logbooks that Licence students kept during the teaching of this history and while they were in L 3 LLCER (Langue, Littératures et Cultures .

These UGA Hispanic student notebooks were presented to l'visual artist Virginie Manuel (Barcelona), who used collage to link this material with the exhibition organized in Bogotá in 2023 by Bastien Bosa (anthropologist) and Diana Ángulo (African Studies) with students from the University of Rosario.
This exhibition consisted of a 14-stop tour of the university's sites of memory of its slave-owning days. The exhibition is the first part of a series of activities focusing on these archives and their cross-fertilization between their various potentialities: artistic, educational, memorial and visual.

Presentation of the artist

Virginie Manuel trained as an architect, but her interest in art has led her to a multidisciplinary practice in many fields, including graphic design, painting, photography, film, set design, reuse and DIY art.
Much of her personal work focuses on the city's bustling life and diversity. Lately, she has been involved in an association for education in living together through urban heritage, where the themes of discrimination and racism are central.