Exhibition | Photo exibition
A Contemporary Past – Looking Back and Forward
- Date
- Wednesday 26 June 2024 - Friday 25 July 2025
- Address
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Academy Building
Rapenburg 73
2311 GJ Leiden - Room
- Courtyard
A series portraits of staff and students with different backgrounds rwho, through personal stories and reflections, look back and forward, reflecting on how this history continues to play a role in the present and the future. Which steps can we take as an academic community to reconcile with the past? How can we make space for painful, but also honest conversations? This exhibition invites you, as an observer, to also (critically) reflect on our history and contemporary society.
As an educational and research institution, has engaged with this history, and its own role in it. The commemoration of our colonial history and slavery past is, after all, about taking responsibility for our role in this history.
Which steps can we take as an academic community to reconcile with the past? How can we make space for painful, but also honest conversations? With this exhibition, we try to bring these issues closer, facilitate conversations, and show how our own daily experiences can relate to the past.
Photographer
Kevin Kwee
Designer
Matt van Santvoord