"The Journey of the Black Venus" as a Festival Weeks Guest Performance

European art history is full of naked women. The French film director Alice Diop, who grew up as the daughter of a Senegalese family in a Paris suburb, adds to this: Many of these women are black. They are usually found on the margins or as wooden chair or table legs - marginalized, objectified, humiliated. At the Vienna Festival Weeks, she has been lecturing Europeans with "The Journey of the Black Venus" at the Schauspielhaus since Monday.

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