Reckoning with colonial injustice: International law as culprit and as remedy?

Abstract

To fall under the spell of an object, to be touched by it, moved emotionally by a piece of art in a museum, brought to tears of joy, to admire its forms of ingenuity, to like the artworks' colors, to take a photo of it, to let oneself be transformed by it: all these experiences-which are also forms of access to knowledge-cannot simply be reserved to the inheritors of an asymmetrical history. Felwin Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy, 2018 *I wish to thank Eric de Brabandere and Ingo Venzke for their comments.