Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia
By (Author) Carlos Garrido Castellano
Edited by Bruno Leitao
University of Wales Press
University of Wales Press
8th September 2022
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Colonialism and imperialism
708.46
Physical Properties
Hardback
304
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Description
The first comprehensive study of postcolonial practices in Iberian art curation.
This book reveals how art curation shapes postcolonial identities on the Iberian peninsula. Grappling with colonial fragmentation, communities in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and France have turned to artistic displays to work out new identities in a modern, cosmopolitan world. These efforts take a variety of forms as particular curators cope with the particular imperial legacies that drive ongoing socio-economic transformation. Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia thus draws together, expands, and redefines both Iberian and curatorial studies through a decolonial lens.
Reviews
"This is a timely and ground-breaking volume. . . . For the field of Iberian Studies in particular, it offers not only a much needed opportunity to broaden its active 'cultural archive"'beyond the traditional literary core, but also to incorporate and question concepts of peripherality and coloniality. For Spanish and Portuguese art studies, the volume proposes an innovative comparative approach, one that not only links and contrasts curatorial practices in both countries, but also places them in a wider artistic, geocultural and academic context, and in relation to their own colonial practices."
--Santiago Prez Isasi, Lisbon University
Author Bio
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.
