Fetish Modernity



Curators: Anne-Marie Bouttiaux & Anna Seiderer


Catalogue of the group show Fetish Modernity. 8 April 2011 - 4 September 2011, Royal Museum of Central Africa - RMCA

24x30cm, color and B&W illustrations, 270 pages, ISBN: 978-9-0747-5293-0. Edited by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux & Anna Seiderer.

"This exhibition, created by six European Museums, invites visitors to explore the notion of modernity. (...) This idea is expressed via several themes: criticism of the legacy of ethnography museums through contemporary art; (...)." (RMAC)
Curators: Anne-Marie Bouttiaux & Anna Seiderer / RIME-International Network of Ethnography Museums and Word Culture. Visual Artists: Sammy Baloji, Marie Baronnet, Boclé Jean-François, Pierre Buch, Marina Cox, Eric Lafforgue, Pitcho, Lisl Ponger.

The exhibition will run between 2011 to 2014 in 6 “Ethnography Museums and World Cultures of RIME-International Network of Ethnography Museums and Word Culture”: 
>RMCA, Tervuren, Belgium
>Museo de America, Madrid
>Naprstek Museum of Cultures, Praha
>Museum für Völkerkunde, Viena
>Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde National, Leiden
>National Museums of World Culture, Stockholm