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Reworking National History

The Representation of Power and its Subsequent Overturning in Relation to Postcolonial Art in Italy

Abstract

This presentation aims to analyse the representation of power and its subsequent overturning, in relation to postcolonial art in Italy. Works such as Pays Barbare by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Alessandra Ferriniʼs Negotiating Amnesia or The Return of the Axum Obelisk by Theo Esthetu, use editing process and the video medium to decolonize images through artistic postproduction of archival material related to imperialist visual propaganda. In this way, the same picture is placed and recontextualized within another picture, leading the image to take on a different meaning, calling into question its relationship to power.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 17 Settembre 2023 | Accettato: 30 Ottobre 2023 | Pubblicato 22 Dicembre 2023 | Lingua: en

Keywords Italy • Decoloniality • Postcolonialism • Contemporary art • Fascism

Copyright © 2023 Jacopo De Blasio. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-771-5/002


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