{"product_id":"format","title":"Format","description":"Format is a polyptych: six photographs conceived as a single ensemble, though also available individually. A single photograph is priced at 36,000 zar while the 6 at 175,000 zar\r\n\r\nThe work examines the life of movie theatres in Katanga Province, before and after independence. Under colonial rule, the class divide between the Black and White communities produced deep social separations. One strand focuses on Gécamines, the mining company that gave its employees hospitals, libraries, swimming pools and cinemas — spaces that fell apart after the financial crash of late 1989. Revisiting those former projection sites assembles them into an archive of survival.\r\n\r\nThe post-independence period is bound up with the artist’s own identity, having witnessed Gécamines’ fall. Those outside the privileged class of company workers had to invent their own access to moving images. Hence the focus on Katuba, where the artist grew up. Televisions there were rare, controlled by the head of the household. Many owners, tired of hosting neighbours, turned their living rooms into cinemas at once private and public, charging admission for films, football matches and cultural events. After 1996, open borders brought a flood of televisions and VCD players into Katanga.\r\n\r\nThe work returns to these living-room cinemas to ask what role they still play today.","brand":"Georges Senga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48174006960349,"sku":"georges-senga-format-20260714","price":41400.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/7261\/1293\/files\/121023_1784046552_57a5f7bf_49ff4291-a715-41dc-a194-1604a27f3bbf.jpg?v=1784102356","url":"https:\/\/latitudes.online\/products\/format","provider":"Latitudes Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}