{"id":68489,"date":"2023-01-03T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/evenements\/expressions-decoloniales3\/"},"modified":"2023-10-14T13:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T11:55:34","slug":"expressions-decoloniales3","status":"publish","type":"evenement","link":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/en\/events\/expressions-decoloniales3\/","title":{"rendered":"Expression(s) d\u00e9coloniale(s)#3"},"content":{"rendered":"

From 13 May to 12 November 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

A different perspective on our collections<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Every historical narrative is a construction and an expression of a viewpoint on oneself and on others. History museums are no exception to this rule. Exhibiting a collection\u2019s objects is akin to presenting the perception that the collectors had of themselves and of others over time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a moment when we are rethinking the history of Humanity as an interconnected one on a global scale, it is essential to point out that many of the objects and documents on display in museums today are intrinsically imbued with a colonial perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an attempt to understand exactly how these pieces were seen when they were acquired, to distance ourselves from them, to question them and measure their impact on us \u2013 both in what we know and how we imagine things \u2013 the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019histoire de Nantes<\/strong>, as part of the third edition of Expression(s) d\u00e9coloniale(s)<\/em>, has once again invited an historian and an artist from the African continent to dialogue with the museum\u2019s collections.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Internationally renowned Cameroonian artist Barth\u00e9l\u00e9my Toguo <\/strong>will invest the museum\u2019s rooms with his work, which shows an unfailing commitment to questioning the major issues of our time, while also establishing a dazzling relationship between past and present. Themes exploring the fundamental imbalances of the world we live in, the structural imbalances of exchange that characterize it, and the inequal opportunities and multiple discriminations resulting from them<\/strong>, make his work eminently contemporary and political. Questions revolving around cultural memory are also present in his work, but do not prevent a celebration of the fundamental power of life, as vigorous as it is unexpected. Prolific and generous, Toguo will present some twenty works throughout the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Histoire de Nantes\u2019 permanent collection, adding a new imperative to this year\u2019s edition: the need to act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the spirit of hospitality, Toguo wanted to associate five artists with this year\u2019s edition at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Histoire de Nantes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commissariat de la manifestation : Krystel Guald\u00e9 (directrice scientifique du mus\u00e9e d\u2019histoire de Nantes)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\t<\/div><\/section>\n\t

Fran\u00e7ois Wassouni<\/h2>

Historian Fran\u00e7ois Wassouni\u00a0\u2013 \u00a0a specialist in the history of violence and a lecturer in contemporary history<\/strong>\u00a0at the University of Maroua in Cameroon \u2013\u00a0will present roughly ten new captions for objects that are emblematic of Nantes\u2019 and France\u2019s colonial history, which resonate with his research topics and his approach to questions of national memory.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\t\n\t