![]() In this talk I will analyze how the autofictional novel Huaco retrato (2021) by Peruvian author Gabriela Wiener reveals the darker side of Western modernity –of which the museum is a key institution– by paying attention to ‘stolen memories’ (Mignolo) and silenced voices, and by re-signifying forgotten or looted artefacts as bearers of affective memories that are closely tied to the narrator’s complex descent and her gender and ethnic identity. ![]() Both ethnographic and art museums are often seen as expressions of imperial power which (re)produce the ‘white gaze’ in the sense that they not only conserve historical artefacts, but have also erased other worlds and forms of thinking or sensing. Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, 1.06 Seminar with Reindert Dhondt: Decolonizing Heritage and Subjectivity in Gabriela Wiener’s Huaco retratoĬontemporary decolonial thought questions the role museums have played and continue to play in the constitution of the Eurocentric aesthetic and epistemic order that characterizes the ‘modern/colonial’ world system. ![]()
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