Black Venus

The story

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.

• #domestic life
• #exhibition
• #london, england
• #anatomist
• #brothel
• #pneumonia
• #south africa
• #france
• #poverty
• #paris, france
• #african woman
• #colonialism