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Research Trip in Quebec, August 2017. Pour une histoire des anti-images.

Sara Petrella and Jean Tanguay visit the storage of the Musée de la Civilisation of Québec

With the support of Schmidheiny Foundation and Société Académique of Geneva, Sara Petrella and Aldo Trucchio took a research trip in July and August 2017 to visit museum storage collections of Québec and study artefacts from autochthonous communities of New France (17th-19th C.). This trip forms the early part of a comparatist research project that will include field studies in Africa and Asia, entitled L’Occident au miroir: pour une histoire des “anti-images”. The research aims to study how Western representations of alterity (monsters, savages, demons…) have been reinterpreted at the time of the encounter of missionaries, explorers and colonisers with autochthonous peoples. The project provides the opportunity to highlight the recovery of  more recent, as well as older, satirical and caricatural themes and the bricolage between traditions and discoveries; art and science.

 

Sara Petrella and Ghislaine Lemay visit the storage of the McCord Museum of Montréal

Aldo Trucchio with Michel Savard in the storage of the Huron-Wendat Museum of Wendake

Sara Petrella visited the Canadian Museum of History at Gatineau with the curators Jonathan Lainey and Timothy P. Fora