ABSTRACT
The chapter considers the museum space, practices and institutions in the light of repressed histories, sounds, voices, images, memories, bodies, expression and cultures. Postcolonial art is intimately linked to globalisation that is, to a critical reflection on the planetary conditions of artistic production, circulation and reception. In the frame of a postcolonial constellation that is simultaneously theoretical and practical, one could think of a different configuration of space, based on the centrality of transits and transcultural movements. The postcolonial artwork elaborates an ethical-aesthetic cut across and within an inherited Occidental art discourse that leads simultaneously to recovery and renewal the autonomy of art and aesthetic suddenly becomes a pressing ethical and political issue. Within the complex and contested cartography of global modernity, the encounter with postcolonial art reveals life emerging from processes of connection and disconnection, conjunctions and differences, territorialisation and deterritorialisation.
