Cine-debate - Stolen Patrimonies: restitute, repair, tell

Auditorium Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, 4, place Jussieu

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Can we still put into the museum the objects acquired by colonization? Where do they come from? Who do they belong to? Who are they addressed to? What do they represent? Divinities, works of art, ethnographic artifacts… intended for ritual or utilitarian uses rather than a museum life, what will become of these objects after their restitution? Appropriation or cultural appreciation? What perspective is being given… Screening of Mati Diop's film Dahomey November 2021, twenty-six royal treasures of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to be repatriated to their homeland, now Benin. With several…