What is a dangerous collection? How do artists confront the traumatic past that such collections represent? What of the politics of restitution of plundered objects and their contextualization? Bringing together an artist, theorist, and director of institution, this panel examines the role of museums in the historiography of nations that once engaged in colonization and enslavement. The conversation is based on the alleged ‘dangerousness’ of certain objects and discourses with respect to the survival of colonial narratives. This panel will draw on such lively debates to shed light on contemporary issues related to questions of collective and national memory.
Julien Creuzet, Artist, Paris
Clémentine Deliss, Associate Curator KW Berlin and Global Humanities Professor, University of Cambridge, Berlin
Moderator: Eva Barois De Caevel, Independent Curator, Art Critic and Editor, Pantin
Julien Creuzet grew up in Martinique and now lives and works in Paris. His practice emerges from his lived experience as an echo on the collective social realities of the Caribbean diaspora, focusing on the troubled intersection between Caribbean histories and European modernity. Creuzet describes Martinique as “the heart of my imagination”. In his installations, visual and sonic languages migrate and transform through a creolization, an emancipation and affirmation of the diasporic experience. His practice intertwines poetic, sensory, and social forms via amalgams of sculpture, video, sound, and textual intervention.
Dr. Clémentine Deliss is Global Humanities Professor of History of Art at the University of Cambridge, Guest Professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, and Associate Curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, where she directs the Metabolic Museum-University and is currently preparing the exhibition, “Skin in the Game” (opening September 2023). Her practice crosses the borders of contemporary art, critical anthropology, curatorial experimentation, and publishing. Her book “The Metabolic Museum” was published by Hatje Cantz in co-production with KW in 2020, in Russian translation by Garage Publishing in 2021, and forthcoming in Spanish.
Eva Barois De Caevel is an independent curator. Her working interests span feminism, postcolonial studies, the body and sexualities, the critique of western-centered art history as well as the renewing of critical writing and speech. In 2020, she received a curatorial grant from the Centre national des arts plastiques. Eva published numerous texts in exhibition catalogues and specialized magazines. She was curator for publications at RAW Material Company in Dakar and taught art history at ENSBA Lyon and Villa Arson, Nice. She curated many exhibitions in France and abroad.
The Conversations program for Paris + par Art Basel 2022 is curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou.
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