Decolonising the British Museum: Hew Locke’s confrontation with looted objects.What Have We Here?, 17 October 2024- 9 February 2025, British Museum, London
Perched on top of cabinets lining the wall, Hew Locke’s Watchers observe the visitors to the exhibition What Have We Here? and their reactions to the objects, artwork and cultural artefacts exhibited below them. Gazing down on the materialisation of a complex narrative of the British Museum’s histo...
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| הוצא לאור ב: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/miranda, |
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| פורמט: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| שפה: | Anglais |
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Miranda
2025
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | Perched on top of cabinets lining the wall, Hew Locke’s Watchers observe the visitors to the exhibition What Have We Here? and their reactions to the objects, artwork and cultural artefacts exhibited below them. Gazing down on the materialisation of a complex narrative of the British Museum’s history of its collections, these colourfully-dressed anthropomorphic figures (a conquistador, a shaman, a figure wearing an armour, another one a skull mask) bear witness to entangled narratives of col... |
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