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This exhibition presents around one hundred photographs taken in New Caledonia and Vanuatu between 1874 and 1955. Choosing to avoid the exoticism of studio portraits, it aims to capture scenes from the daily lives of both the colonized and the colonizers. It thus reveals the diversity of experiences lived in colonial situations and holds up a mirror to the past to help us better understand the present and the future.
Convicts from the penal colony, freedmen or deportees, settlers, missionaries, soldiers, civil servants and workers imported from Asia joined the Kanak and Ni-Vanuatu to form the strata of a hierarchical and unequal colonial society in many respects.
The Kavitara room brings together photographs from archival collections rarely shown to the public.
Through nine themes, the exhibition "Living in Colonies" offers a sensitive and historical immersion into human trajectories often absent from usual narratives.
Led by historian Isabelle Merle and anthropologist Marie Durand, who combined their expertise on New Caledonia and Vanuatu, in partnership with the Archives Service of New Caledonia and the National Overseas Archives, this project offers a documented, human and accessible reading of our common history.
Convicts from the penal colony, freedmen or deportees, settlers, missionaries, soldiers, civil servants and workers imported from Asia joined the Kanak and Ni-Vanuatu to form the strata of a hierarchical and unequal colonial society in many respects.
The Kavitara room brings together photographs from archival collections rarely shown to the public.
Through nine themes, the exhibition "Living in Colonies" offers a sensitive and historical immersion into human trajectories often absent from usual narratives.
Led by historian Isabelle Merle and anthropologist Marie Durand, who combined their expertise on New Caledonia and Vanuatu, in partnership with the Archives Service of New Caledonia and the National Overseas Archives, this project offers a documented, human and accessible reading of our common history.
