Last Friday september 15th the exhibition “Submerged Heritage was openend in Rotterdam.
The exhibition Soengoe Kondre / Submerged Heritage takes you to the interior of Suriname, the former Dutch colony on the Caribbean coast of South America, where an area covering 1560 km2 was submerged under water after the completion of the Afobaka dam in 1964. Built as the country was transitioning to full independence, which would come in 1975, the dam’s far-reaching consequences included the mass displacement of Maroons – the descendants of Africans enslaved under colonialism who, beginning in the 18th century, fought and escaped their bondage and established independent inland settlements.
Queen Juliana and prince Bernard visited Suriname in 1965. A cloth was made to commemorate the visit, now on display in the exhibition on loan from DenRonCollections.
The exhibition runs until June 2024.
Here some photo’s from the exhibition © Aad Hoogendoorn , our contribution is hanging on the ceiling:
