DISSEMINATION
Documentary Series
'In museum showcases, in their storerooms, buried under dust, or exhibited in carefully illuminated urns, thousands of objects and specimens taken from former colonized territories constitute an increasingly uncomfortable loot throughout the European continent.' Françoise Vergès
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Expedient 71
The 165 objects of “black art” that appear in Expedient 71 of the Museum of Ethnology and World Cultures of Barcelona correspond to the collection of General Miguel Núñez de Prado, governor of Equatorial Guinea between 1926 and 1931. That period was characterized by the expansionist fever, modernization, forced labor and extreme violence exercised against the Fang people.
The collection is now the subject of a critical review, through a temporary exhibition that the museum itself is preparing. Meanwhile, in Equatorial Guinea, the Fang historian Mariano Ekomo is searching, village by village, for traces of that traumatic time, personified in the bloodthirsty figure of the lieutenant of the Colonial Guard Julián Ayala.
Expediente 71 will be the first chapter of a documentary miniseries that will critically analyze the colonial past of Catalan museums and their most controversial collections