Bart Ouvry-On geopolitics, stereotypes, restitution and how we open doors and windows ...

Описание: Seminar organized by the National Museum of Anthropology, the Museum of America, the Subdirectorate General of State Museums, ICOM Spain, the Spanish Association of Anthropology (ASAEE), and the research group "Space and Power" from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Museums are at the center of public debate in a way that hasn't happened in a long time. They have become spaces for reflection and political action, where the image of the world we want is at stake.
However, this prominence is also uncomfortable, generating much noise. What is essentially a global process of reorganizing the system of relations between cultures and societies in the contemporary postcolonial era often turns into demagoguery or simplistic, binary narratives.
Decolonization is a framework of thought, not an end goal in itself. Museums, just as they once contributed through their grammars of categorization, organization, and exhibition to the legitimization of a specific world order, must now support this process of reordering mentalities, at the very least offering a critical perspective on that model of the world—on the lens that shapes our perception of reality.
Focusing on the future of museums, the various sessions of this seminar aim to share experiences regarding the practices of representing collective subjects in museums located in different contexts and orientations.