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“Everything Passes Except The Past” is the large-scale project of the Goethe-Institut in Brussels, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institutes in France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and various other partners, such as the Africa Museum Tervuren, L’ISELP (Brussels), Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món (Barcelona) Museo Musée d’Aquitaine (Bordeaux) and Culturgest (Lisbon). It focuses on dealing with the colonial heritage in these countries. At the center is the artistic-discursive engagement with a past that remains present in the museums, in the public space and in the picture archives of the region.
The project’s title is taken from the book with the same name by Luc Huyse. The Belgian sociologist describes how people, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, come to terms with pain caused by occupation and colonization that refuses to pass. The collective reprossessing of the past is the crux of this project that proves what appears to have passed, does not fade away. To honestly look at the colonial history and its effects on the present means that we have to leave safe ground in order to redefine and rethink power structures we are imposing and reproducing ourselves.
For the purposes of the two-year-long-project ”Everything Passes Except The Past“ we propose an artistic and discoursive approach to the residues of colonialism, whether that involves monuments or other traces of colonialism in urban space or popular culture, film archives or artefacts acquired by European museums and collectors during the colonial era, for the most part under dubious circumstances. In 2019 we organize four different workshops in Brussels, Lisbon, Bordeaux and Barcelona, accompanied by several public events, to gather together knowledge that is widely scattered. The aim is to get an overview of practices and possibilities, and develop a space in which conflicts can be thrashed out without the usual automatic formation of rigid fronts.
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What role does photography take in a culture of memory? What are the ethical implications for the use of colonial images and how do we overcome their unsettling narratives? The exhibition EVERYTHING PASSES EXCEPT THE PAST presents photographic and lens-based artworks by Bianca Baldi, Alessandra Ferrini, Grace Ndiritu, and the collective Troubled Archives that confront, challenge, and repurpose the colonial gaze. They expose the colonial image archive as being a power instrument of social regimentation and point to the potential for critical redesign.
Impressions of the Barcelona Workshop
"The Year of Black Healing: An Interview with Grace Ndiritu" (Berlinartlink, 28.02.2020) More Press and Media
Published in “Exhibiting in an Educational Field” edited by Yann Chateigné with further texts by Roxane Bovet, Yann Chateigné, Julie Enckell Julliard, Géraldine Gourbe, Tom Holert, Jean-Pierre Greff, Lucie Kolb, Charlotte Laubard, Doreen Mende. Published by HEAD - Genève / Les Presses du Réel, April 2019.