White Cube is a powerful and provocative dissection of art, class and decolonisation. The
film follows the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC), a plantation
workers’ cooperative based on a former Unilever plantation in the Congolese town of
Lusanga, as they attempt to end the destructive system of monoculture on their lands – by
building upon it a gallery, the ‘white cube’ of the title.

By presenting and selling art within this new space, the collective attempt to raise sufficient
finances to buy back their land from international plantation companies – and secure it for
future generations. From the violence of the plantation system to the aesthetics of the
gallery, this multi-layered and fascinating film posits that galleries and museums can only
become decolonised and inclusive if the benefits accrued from them flow back to the
workers whose labour financed – in some cases, continue to finance – their foundations.