6/3/2023 0 Comments Origin of lose your marbles![]() While in exhibitions we have seen the much-needed entry of voices diverging from the Western canon, too often these inclusions, to quote Ana Teixeira Pinto in frieze, ‘adhere to the museum’s own regulation of cultural difference’. ![]() Commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron and released in November 2018, Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy’s ‘Restitution Report’ stated that dealing with Europe’s colonial past is ‘one of Europe’s greatest challenges for the 21st century’.Ĭrucial, overdue calls for decolonization in Europe are taking place in the political terrain and media, in museums and cultural fields, including contemporary art. In 2017, the French government announced its intentions to revisit and reconsider the collections of its ‘ethnographic’ and ‘world’ museums.
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