Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019) was an internationally recognized and pathbreaking art curator, former director of Haus der Kunst, founder of
The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition (2003) Available to Purchase
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Published:August 2025
2025. "The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary Art in a State of Permanent Transition (2003)", Selected Writings, Volume 1: Toward a New African Art Discourse, Okwui Enwezor, Terry Smith
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This 2003 essay argues that postcoloniality is not a subset of globalization but that economic and political globalization is one set of forces within a larger constellation of forces, all now postcolonial. The chapter explores the resistant and productive roles of contemporary art and curating within this constellation, particularly the use of strategies such as discontinuous, aleatory forms, creolization, and hybridity.
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