An exhibition on decolonialization and post-colonial legacy at the Sandretto Foundation

From September 17 to October 18, 2020, the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin will host the Everything Passes Except the Past [Everything Passes Except the Past] initiative, which is both an exhibition and an online festival, organized by the Goethe-Institut in collaboration with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

It is an exhibition that offers an artistic and discursive take on the remnants of colonialism, with the aim of redefining power structures and imagining alternative scenarios in the context of a growing public awareness of racist violence and historical injustice: an awareness that has repositioned monuments, ethnographic collections and film archives of colonial origin at the center of political and social debate. The exhibition will feature works by Bianca Baldi, Alessandra Ferrini, Grace Ndiritu and the Troubled Archives collective. Comparing reality and representation, the works in the exhibition aim to challenge the Western idea of the colonial image as an objective document and expose the tensions between past and present.

The exhibition is accompanied by a rich discursive program, a festival that will be broadcast online on Oct. 17. Art historian Bénédicte Savoy will give the keynote address, which will be followed by a program of panel discussions with contributions from activists, artists, experts, curators, and researchers from Africa, Latin America, and Europe. The discussions will address issues related to the decolonization of museum collections, public space and film archives in order to place perspectives from the global North and South in close dialogue. In addition, presentations will place an emphasis on how the methodologies of art, critical theory and activism can offer tools to instigate political awareness and critical metamorphosis.

The festival is part of the two-year international Everything Passes Except The Past project sponsored by the Goethe-Institut, which has organized a series of workshops and events in Belgium, France, Portugal, and Spain since 2019. Many of the artists and experts participating in the festival will present works and interventions developed during this research process. The publication documenting the entire project journey will be released in October 2020. For more information you can visit the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo website.

Pictured: Alessandra Ferrini, Sight Unseen (2019).

An exhibition on decolonialization and post-colonial legacy at the Sandretto Foundation

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