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Selected Writings, Volume 2: Curating the Postcolonial Condition
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Okwui Enwezor
Okwui Enwezor
Okwui Enwezor (1963–2019) was an internationally recognized and pathbreaking art curator, former director of Haus der Kunst, founder of
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Duke University Press
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978-1-4780-6057-4
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2025
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Place-Making or in the “Wrong Place”: Contemporary Art and the Postcolonial Condition (2008) Available to Purchase
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Published:August 2025
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2025. "Place-Making or in the “Wrong Place”: Contemporary Art and the Postcolonial Condition (2008)", Selected Writings, Volume 2: Curating the Postcolonial Condition, Okwui Enwezor, Terry Smith
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This essay revisits and updates Okwui Enwezor’s classic 2003 text “The Postcolonial Constellation,” published in volume 1 of this collection. In it, he defends biennials as a vehicle for antiglobalization critique. It discusses at length key works by Chris Ofili and Julie Mehretu.
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