This exhibition intends to present in a accessible and reflexive way a decentrated history of the world from the 13th to the 21st century. Without pretending to represent the world in its entirety, It offers visitors to abandon the still dominant Western perspective today, In order to favor other points of view in Asia, in Africa, in America and Oceania, where sculptures, paintings, textiles, cards, Archaeological objects, Manuscripts and decorative arts show successive globalizations otherwise. These works make it possible to understand the relationship to the time and space of societies outside Europe while highlighting their way of writing history. Lakota bison skin, Kanak bamboo engraved, Sarong Historié Javanese, Sénégalese griot's story testify to the infinite wealth of vernacular historiographies.
Travels and explorations of merchants, Arab pilgrims and scholars, Asian or African who "discover" distant regions and produce new knowledge will come to upset these so -called traditional conceptions of the world. African cauris like Chinese navigation cards remind us forcefully that globalization was multipolar, In Central Asia, in the Indian Ocean and far beyond. In the extension of the gradual decompartmentalization of the globe, Europeans themselves become the subjects of many and sometimes confusing representations, And the world an object of multiple curiosities and encyclopedist ambitions outside the West. Faced with the European Clean History produced by colonial empires from the 17th century, the sovereigns, the elites and artists of other continents have sought to reclaim their history, sometimes inspired by Western practices, To stage their power or anti -colonial resistance. New national novels allow them today to rewrite their past by reinventing their relationship with the world.comsseau:
Singaravoulou Pierre, historian specializing in colonial empires and globalization, Professor at King’s College in London and at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Fabrice Argounès, Geographer specialist in the history of cartographic and geopolitical knowledge, teacher at the University of Rouen and exhibition commissioner
Camille Faucourt, curator, Responsible for the Mobility and Mixing Pole