Exhibition
Décadrage colonial
Unframing Colonialism
The event is over
Photomontage de John Heartfield, "Social Kunst, no 8", 1932, couverture (détail). Bibliothèque Kandinsky Photo © Centre Pompidou/© The Heartfield Community of Heirs/Adagp, Paris, 2022
“Do not visit the colonial exhibition”: reacting to the opening of the Paris Colonial Exhibition in Vincennes in 1931, the members of the Surrealist group denounced France's imperialist policy. The “Unframing Colonialism” exhibition proposes to review this unique episode and the visual images generated at the time through photography.
Photomontage de John Heartfield, "Social Kunst, no 8", 1932, couverture (détail). Bibliothèque Kandinsky Photo © Centre Pompidou/© The Heartfield Community of Heirs/Adagp, Paris, 2022
The exhibition uses the Photography Cabinet collection and documents from the Kandinsky Library to explore the tensions and ambivalence running through the production of the new photographic scene in Paris at the time: a pseudo-scientific fascination for so-called “exotic” cultures, fetishisation and eroticisation of black bodies, sharing in the renewal of ethnography and contributing to the elaboration of a new image of the nation.
When
11am - 9pm, every days except tuesdays
