Decolonial Curatorial Methodology

Myriam Amroun and Natasha Marie Llorens propose curatorial practice as a form of artistic research that goes beyond “metaphorizing decolonization,” or research that is grounded in the practice of curating an exhibition and results in a collaborative reflection in the form of a publication. Our project is based on transnational solidarity at an individual scale.

We will produce the same exhibition in two different sites: the Nordic region, in which Bildmuseet is situated, and the North African region, in which LE 18 is embedded.

We would link two regions based on our own respective positionality—from where we are speaking—, and the delicate historical relationship between them that results from each region’s position on the margins of the European project.

The curatorial process, including the exhibitions’ translation across national and infrastructural contexts, will be documented in a cumulative publication.

The project has four principle aims: to centre the knowledge produced by the practice of curating (rather than that which it simply presents in the exhibition); to experiment with infrastructures that support minor transnational relationality; to experiment with institutional scale in relation to the exhibition; to work from and between two important margins of the European project—the Nordic region and North Africa—in an embodied manner that nevertheless acknowledges our distance from both.