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This workshop co-organized by Josephine McDonagh and Laetitia Zecchini, and co-sponsored by the CNRS and the IIRP in Paris, brings together scholars and curators from different institutions and parts of the world. It aims to explore the forms and uses of colonial/postcolonial print from the Global South in the colonial exhibitions and world fairs of the turn of the 19th century, up to our postcolonial/decolonial present, and explore how the interaction of textual and visual registers are an integral part of exhibition-making and postcolonial print cultures. How are colonial and postcolonial print ephemera, media and literatures staged and displayed, put to use and re-purposed in museums and exhibition spaces today, and to what ends? How is the history of the often predatory or asymmetrical modes of acquisition, collecting and cataloging of African, Asian, Oceanian or American material, and the ethnological gaze that presided over these practices contested or pluralized? And what becomes of the postcolonial/colonial print archive when it becomes art?