As part of SITUATIONS/Closure, Fotomuseum Winterthur hosts a panel discussion on artistic, curatorial and academic strategies of decolonisation. Who has the authority and the right to speak about a given culture, a specific community or history and how can colonial narratives and imageries be undermined? What are the strategies to disrupt the logics and corruptions of archives and other forms of knowledge formation, and how can we create aesthetic spaces that allow for new approaches and open dialogue based on a postcolonial, critical reassessment?

Panelists:

• Rhea Storr, a British-Bahamian artist whose work The Image that Spits, the Eye that Accumulates (2017) is currently on display at Fotomuseum.
• Julia Grosse, co-founder and artistic director of Contemporary & (C&).
• Gloria Oyarzabal, a Spanish artist, will present her work Women Go No’Gree.
• Lorena Rizzo, research associate at the Center for African Studies and eikones.

Moderated by Thato Mogotsi, a Johannesburg-based independent arts practitioner.

The event is free and takes place on Zoom. Details on how to access the talk will be confirmed upon registration.