Anna Safiatou Touré
#1 min Anna Safiatou Touré
27. 7. 2026
L’Immeuble aux Planteurs
L’Immeuble aux Planteurs (The Planters’ Building) is a multifaceted project developed in dialogue with two statues located on Rue Léopold in Liège, Belgium. Created in 1878 by the sculptor Michel Decoux, the figures – a planter and a tobacco harvester – depict two Black men in polychrome terracotta, with bare legs and torsos.
Each statue has lost a hand, most likely due to wear. Yet the clean, sharp break also suggests the possibility of deliberate mutilation. These amputations directly evoke the historical violence of Belgian colonisation in the Congo, marked by the notorious practice of severing hands.
Starting from these absences, I reconstructed the missing hands of the two statues in raw clay. I then developed a fictional narrative that begins with the discovery of these hands on the banks of the Meuse, the river that runs through Liège, making it possible to trace the identities of the two men.
The colonial legacy continues to shape the heritage of our cities. Reinterpreting it is, I believe, essential: it means learning to read the symbols of an aesthetic that once served to legitimise economic and cultural domination. To me, the absence of these hands resembles phantom pain – what is missing continues to hurt.
All images | Anna Safiatou Touré, L’Immeuble aux Planteurs, 2025–ongoing
Anna Safiatou Touré
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