(2024) ABSENT Presences - introduction (original) (raw)

With this text, Andre Paijmans, Margriet van der Waal and I, as editors, introduce the volume Present Absences Decolonising Our Views of the Zuid-Afrikahuis(ZAH) and Its collections. In it, 11 authors took an object from the collection of the ZAH as the starting point for an essay on what becomes visible when we look from a critical perspective for what these artefacts can say about the experiences of South Africans that have hitherto remained unexposed or underexposed in the House's collections and furnishings.