If the "communist infiltration of Africa" was a spectre often used to justify the elimination of Patrice Lumumba, the assassination of the Congo's - indeed, Africa's - first democratically elected Prime Minister on 17 January 1961 created a spectre of its own.

In the photographs, installation, and book project that comprise Les Demoiselles de Bruxelles, the color images of African prostitutes seem at first to dominate the exhibition.