Decolonising the British Museum: Hew Locke’s confrontation with looted objects.What Have We Here?, 17 October 2024- 9 February 2025, British Museum, London
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Perched on top of cabinets lining the wall, Hew Locke’s Watchers observe the visitors to the exhibition What Have We Here? and their reactions to the objects, artwork and cultural artefacts exhibited below them. Gazing down on the materialisation of a complex narrative of the British Museum’s history of its collections, these colourfully-dressed anthropomorphic figures (a conquistador, a shaman, a figure wearing an armour, another one a skull mask) bear witness to entangled narratives of col...
Source: Miranda
DOI: 10.4000/1410o
Author: Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding
Institution: Université de Lille
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410807597