Published on May 5, 2024 at 3:34 p.m. / Modified on May 5, 2024 at 3:35 p.m.
“In Oceania, the word for ‘past’ refers to time ahead and the word for ‘future’ refers to time behind. So imagine a Hawaiian with his back turned to the future and his eyes fixed on the past. It is with this little mental exercise that Carine Ayélé Durand, director of the Geneva Museum of Ethnography (MEG) introduced the press tour of the exhibition Memoirs. Geneva in the colonial world. Never before has the MEG mixed its history so much. This new baggage is supposed to provide him with the tools to look to the future without too much fear. In any case, it encourages new collaborative practices with the people and people directly concerned by its collections.
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