Bringing together the works of 40 international artists, including Yto Barrada, the exhibition 'After the end. Cartographies for Another Time', curated by Manuel Borja-Villel, questions the Western narrative that is rooted in a colonial system through stories both new and ancestral, popular and modern. Highlighting the importance of communities, the exhibition will explore the issue of the diaspora and the limits of the intelligibility of modernity in order to imagine other worlds beyond the end of time and beyond our own time.
In 'After the end. Cartographies for Another Time', the Caribbean and North African diasporas, which have been intertwined since the beginning of colonialism, will intermingle. Spanning a vast period stretching from the 17th century to the present day, the exhibition will explore the question of the diasporic condition of these peoples and communities, this ‘borderland’ existence, this ‘belonging without belonging’, to borrow the terms of the poet Gloria Anzaldúa.
