WAAU meets: Dagmar van Weeghel

Dagmar van Weeghel at ARCOLisbon 2024

WORLD AFRICAN ARTISTS UNITED had the pleasure of interviewing the artist Dagmar van Weeghel, on the occasion of her visit to Lisbon, in their space at ARCOlisboa 2024. In a fruitful and relaxed conversation, they were able to discuss the life of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, who is the subject of the artist’s project “For Sarah – The African Princess”. Dagmar van Weeghel also reflected on the representation of African people in Europe throughout history, and on her plans to do a ceremony to return Sarah Forbes Bonettas’s remains to Nigeria.