Conférence: “On Belonging: The Visual Legacies of Black Africans in Early Modern Europe, Hidden and Visible in Plain Sight”, Florence, NIKI, le 10 décembre 2025, 18h
“The past is never dead. It is not even past.” – William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun (1951) “The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us – viewer and maker – in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury of loss.” – Kara Walker, on her drawing The moral arc of history …(2010) Writing in his essay collection Nobody Knows My Name (1961), James Baldwin reflects:The questions which one asks oneself...



