This research project examines the coloniality of infrastructures in postcolonial Nigeria. Focusing on photographs, films, and documents, it investigates global frictions of archives and how built environments, everyday life, and images are intertwined. The project asks what such images and objects inherit and transmit about postcolonial histories, cultural encounters, and the afterlives of infrastructural settlements. The project focuses on postcolonial theories, archival studies and urbanism research, which, together, offer a situated perspective on the physical environment and its visual memory.

Christiane Kues completed her PhD in 2024 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she also taught at the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies. Prior to this, she studied fine art at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Research stays and scholarships have taken her, among other places, to the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California, as part of a travel grant from the Hessian Cultural Foundation. Her work moves between artistic practice, theoretical reflection and cultural studies analysis. She is currently preparing the publication of her doctoral thesis, Theories of Practice —Before and After Artistic Research, which is due to be published in November 2026.