Cultural decolonization - Finestre sull'Arte

Decolonization and museums: a political and economic as well as a cultural problem

Decolonization is a product of the contradictions of a postcolonial society struggling to find points of contact between conquerors and conquered, in a contemporary context that demands a critical analysis of the history of European imperialist power...
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Cultural decolonization: it is not just returning museum works, it is a change of political perspective

Cultural decolonization is a process that is not only about objects and artifacts and, therefore, specific choices of museums and cultural institutes, but refers to a change of political perspective that questions the hierarchies between cultures, th...
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Cultural decolonization: even Italy rediscovers removed fragments of its past

Awareness is growing throughout the world of the violence inherent in the colonial policies that for centuries Europe imposed on a very large part of the non-European world, invading, impoverishing and irreparably disrupting societies endowed with an...
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Scarlett Biscotti: "with my art I seek the confrontation between individual memory and history"

Rossella Biscotti (Molfetta, 1978) is among the most interesting contemporary European artists. With her work, Rossella Biscotti investigates archival objects and materials to bring out their history (even the most uncomfortable, or the forgotten...
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Justin Thompson (Black History Month Florence): "Talking about Africa and colonialism does not mean erasing Italian history, but enriching it."

Since 2016 in Florence, the Black History Month Florence project has aimed to explore African and Afro-descendant cultures in the Italian context. The research of this project has resonated widely in these weeks of protest by the Black Lives Matter...
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Cultural decolonization: is it right to return artworks from our museums to their countries of origin? Part two

This article represents the second part of the discussion on cultural decolonization that we hosted in our magazine. To read the first part you can click on this link. The British Museum's moaï at the center of a heated debate over it...
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From the Black Arts Movement to Black Lives Matter. Not just formalisms, but new social narratives for museums

When the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) reopened its doors last October following a major expansion, it was announced not only that it would be opening a significantly larger facility, but also an equally all-encompassing overhaul of a...
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Material culture and negative space: acquisitions and narratives in museums in the era of Black Lives Matter

The museum world's view of the fate of monuments in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter protests could be described as pure outrage. But even so, I would choose Julia Rindleman 's photograph as evidence of material culture on the Black Lives Ma...
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