Series - FotoSlovo 2024 - Category « Fine Art »
Gold Medal
In Roman law ownership was defined as the absolute, perpetual,exclusive, full enjoyment over an object or corporeal entity.USUS was the right to make use of the object according to its destination or nature, FRUCTUS to receive the fruits, ABUSUS to modify, sell or destroy it/he/she.Museums originated as institutions more than 300 years ago,when certain royal collections opened to the great public,becoming instrumental tools in the construction of identity and the definition of Nation.Bearing in mind the outstanding colonialist origin of many of their collections, then conflict with narrative,creation of knowledge and collective/individual memory,becomes unavoidable.For decades these spaces have reinforced exotism and distinction, intrinsically related to supremacist discourses.
Is the concept of museum universal?
Linked to the colonisation of the concept of woman, is the responsibility of the risky representation of the black woman in Western art.Stereotypes of black sexuality:bold,available,subservient.Return what has been plundered and looted,both in terms of objects and identity,is it an urgent, universal and feasible question for everyone?
