Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia
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- ISBN 9781786838735
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2022
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Combining postcolonial studies, curating and contemporary art, this book surveys the role played by artistic curatorship and contemporary art museums in the shaping of identities and cultural planning in contemporary Iberia. The book's main hypothesis is that contemporary art has been pivotal in the construction of contemporary Iberia, a process marked by the attention paid (in heterogeneous, not always satisfactory ways) to the entanglement of the legacies of colonialism and the present-day status of Iberian territories as cosmopolitan societies now integrated in the European Union. We argue that, at least from the 1990s, curating emerged as a key activity for Iberian societies to display and configure an image of themselves as modern and fully integrated in the European cultural landscape. Such an image, however, had to cope with the legacies of colonialism and the profound socioeconomic transformations of these societies. This book is concerned with bringing together, while redefining and expanding, Iberian and curatorial studies.
Carlos Garrido Castellano lectures at University College Cork. He is the author of Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art (2019), Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future (2021) and Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System (2022), having written extensively on cultural activism, postcolonial studies and artistic and curatorial practice.
Bruno Leitao is a Madrid and Lisbon-based curator, and Head Curator of FAS; he is a co-founder of Hangar, and was its curatorial director until 2021. As a curator, he aims to mediate in the context of art and sociopolitical and civic agency, working with artists from all latitudes to decentralise and challenge the Western canon.
