“This exhibition project suggested that the way anthropologists imagined animism has played a crucial role in colonial representations of the non-European world. Decolonizing the term animism means to use it as an optical tool that brings into view the boundary-making practices of modern colonial discourse.
This is the path that will be pursued in the four episodes presented here through the exhibition. Using artworks as guides, we will look at the divisions and boundaries that are at work in museums.”