Bouchra Khalili / Foreign Office

“Foreign Office” (2015) comprises a digital film, series of photographs and silkscreen print. Produced in Algiers, this body of works investigates the decade (1962-1972) when the city was the "capital of revolutionaries", hosting headquarters of liberation movements from Africa, Asia and the Americas. “Foreign Office” thus forms a combination of fragments suggesting an alternative historiography of utopias, aiming to reflect on the ideal of emancipation in the present-time, and potentially the future.